Ljubojno

The village of Ljubojno is located in the southern part of the Municipality of Resen, about 2 km east of Lake Prespa, and 28 km away from the town of Resen. The Brajcinska River flows through the area of ​​the village, aquifer, fast and clear and on which 16 mills worked until the years of the Ilinden Uprising. Village houses, built between the two world wars, are adorned with finely carved stone, colorful facades on which hang spacious balconies.

The village is first mentioned in a charter of Tsar Dusan from 1337 when he donated the village church of St. Nikola to the monastery Treskavec. Later, Ljubojno is mentioned again in an inscription of the Slivnica Monastery from 1607, as a larger Macedonian settlement.

In historical sources, this village is recorded as Ljubovino. This coincides with a legend according to which the imo came after the first inhabited meandzika Ljuba, who poured very nice wine. When customers entered the tavern, they loudly ordered "Ljubo, wine".

Another version of the name according to folklore, Ljubojno got its name from the word love. Specifically, a boy and a girl from the neighboring neighborhoods fell in love a long time ago, but due to poor neighborly relations between the residents of the neighborhoods, the young people were not allowed to marry. However, they decided to get married and run away. They settled near the river and remained happy to live. Later, other families moved near the place of the lovers and, because of that, they named the place Ljubojno.

Churches

· The monastery church of St. Petar i Pavle - is located 1.5 km east of the village. It was built in 1923. It has a beautiful bell tower and it is a beautiful lookout. A dirt road leads to the church.

· St. Jovan - a village church built in 1861, after the fire in 1903 was rebuilt in 1921. The church is three-aisled with a polygonal apse (seven-sided). In the altar area there is a wall painting dating from 1928.

· Saint Atanasie - located about 1 km east of the village. It was erected in 1623, and restored in 1968. There is a fresco-painting preserved in the altar.

· The Most Holy Mother of God - west of the village, small in size and with modest architecture.

· Saint Marena - located at the western end of the village, is a small and infamous building in the neighborhood of Sherdenkovci. The cult of St. Marena is very widespread in the part of Prespa that today is within the borders of Albania. In Ljubojno it is respected by the Sherdenkovci family.

· The Most Holy Mother of God (Precista) - a small single-nave building with a semicircular apse built on an older building from which an altar fresco-painting from the seventeenth century is preserved.

· St. Nikola - a small building with a semicircular apse, which was probably built in the XIV century, because it is mentioned as a gift to the monastery Treskavec in the charter of Tsar Dusan from 1337

· Saint Dimitrija - is located about 1 km west of the village, has a small building

· St. Ilija - is located east of the village on the road leading to the village. Brajchino is believed to have been built in the nineteenth century and later rebuilt. There are no frescoes, and the frescoes are from a more recent date.

Archaeological sites

Kugjishta - a settlement from Roman times;

Rudina - a settlement from Roman times;

Kula - a settlement with a necropolis from late antiquity;

Graista - a necropolis from Roman times;

Prisoj - a settlement from Roman times;

St. Dimitrija - church and necropolis from the Middle Ages;