Every rich culture has at least one tragic love story. In these parts, it is the story of Vladimir and Kosara. During the war with the Macedonian Emperor Samuel of Duklja

Prince Vladimir was captured and imprisoned in Prespa. The emperor’s daughter, Kosara, fell in love with him. Her love was so strong that she told her father that she would kill herself if he did not allow her to marry him. The fear of losing his daughter, the emperor relented. The two lovers will start their life together in the castle, not far from the Prečista krajnska monastery, near the present-day village of Ostros. After Samuel’s death, he is succeeded by his son Vladislav. He calls

Vladimir to visit Prespa, and as a guarantee that he has nothing to fear, he sends him a golden cross. Vladimir, aware of Vladislav’s fickleness, seeks a wooden cross, because Jesus was crucified on it. Vladimir arrived in Prespa with a wooden cross in his hands and was killed right at the entrance to the church. The cruelty of his brother and the loss of his great love, Kosara cried

like a nun in the monastery of Prečista kranjska, where she transferred her husband’s body, only to be buried next to him later.