The Monastery Dobrun according to the oldest sources was known under the name Kruševo, and it is located in the vivid mountainous area on the road form Belgrade to Užice, 12 km away from Višegrad in the Valley of River Rzav. It is dedicated to the Holly Mary and was erected by the župan Pribil and his sons Stefan and Petar in 1343. The latter one was in 1383 as a monk Jovan builds a very rich annex painted with marvelous frescoes. Already in 1393 when Turks got through in Bosnia for the first time, the monastery was ruined. It was reconstructed by despot Stefan Lazarević and princess Milica. On the crossing of the 18 and 19 century the monastery got abandoned.

There are no reliable data regarding the establishment and the history of the monastery. It is known that it was the center of Metropolitan for a while. In its history the monastery was destroyed and reconstructed many times. The worst destruction took place during the Second World War, when Germans used it as a weapons warehouse, and set it to explode during their withdrawal in 1945. The monastery was reconstructed in 1946.

The monastery was painted with many frescoes. The most known frescoes preserved until present day are those of Tsar Dušan with his wife Jelana and son Uroš,  as well as the fresco of the monastery founder zupan Pribil along with his sons and son in law Stan. In the rocks above the monastery there is a cave whose entrance area was closed with stone blocks. The monks lived there and would descend down to the monastery only during the big religious holidays. The monastery is still active these days. Within the complex of monastery there is a Museum of the First Serbian Upraise, The painting gallery, and a Museum of Dabro Bosnian Diocese of the Metropolitan.

The Old Town of Dobrun

      It is located in the close parameter of the Dobrun monastery, 150 m high in the rocks. Long time ago this was the most known middle age town in the area, known as such since the 15th century.

The town was consisted of the fortress with the parish house and three guarding towers. At that time the town was center of the church and civil authorities for the area. According to the traditional stories told by people, the town was erected around 1440 by the „damned Jerina", the wife of the Serbian despot Đurađ Branković, but this cannot be clearly confirmed as a historic fact. In the middle age, the town also had its own suburbs where traders from Dubrovnik would be staying.

These days we only see the remains of the towers, they are visible from the regional road.  

There is an interesting legend related with the old town of Dobrun, and  you can read more about it here .