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| Rahovitza is a family farm located 1km outside of the village of Kosovo on the trail leading to Biala Tcherkva monastery. It is delimited by two little brooks on either side of a south facing hill at an altitude of 1000m. The place was first settled about 100 years ago and the three currently existing buildings date from 100, 80 and 60 years back. The farmer family lived from agriculture and sheep. Rahovitza was occupied until the early 1980s and has since been abandoned. |
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The mountain-style houses are made of 60cm-thick stone walls and a frame in-fill, wooden carpentry and roofs covered with stone plates. The buildings are all two stories high with the lower floor originally reserved for animals and storage and the upper floor used as living quarters or barn space. |
| We bought the property in 2000 without running water, electricity or road access. In the meantime we have laid a water pipeline supplying us with mountain spring water. We have done a lot of cleaning, unweeding and rebuilding of terasse walls. Quite a few fruit trees supply us with cherries, apples and prunes and the herbs for the morning tea are taken directly from behind the house. In the mornings the neighbor's cows are passing by on their way to the pastures and in the evenings we have our dinners by the light of gas lamps under a sky filled with thousands of stars. |
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