HE INVESTED MILLIONS TO MAKE WHAT NO VILLAGE IN SERBIA HAS, but no one comes there! (PHOTO) (VIDEO)

Radoje Rasa Stanojlovic, American businessman born in village near Lazarevac Rudovci, made on two hectare of land miniature village, a complex called "Rasa village". The basic idea of Stanojlovic was that the rural tourism will stop the destruction of villages. And the businessman invested dizzying sum of money, but the village was not established.

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Stanojlovic planned countryside cultural events to be held in Rasa Village, that would be a place where state representatives would bring guests from abroad, and that Serbs have somewhere to go at the weekend and during that time they live in the village of the last century. The creator of the village says that he gave his best and would surely succeed in America, everything he did in Serbia.

Rasa village is a little village paradise from the 18th and 19th centuries. In it are small houses,  lodge, distillery, dairy. In the village there are a library, a coffee shop, restaurant, hotel with six suites and a gym. All around the whole complex walk "silky" of chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, cats. In the village there's a mill, where guest can I grind grain for their bread.

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- In the village there's a mill, where guest can grind grain for their bread. There is also a bakery where the bread can be baked. Guests can milk the goats and make cheese all by themselves, or to maintain garden. They can ride horses, and their children ponies or play with donkeys. Animals live in the First Balkan hotel for horses here on the farm. For children there is a small tower with a wooden staircase that descends into the depths of ancient drums. For the older ones there is a tower "Himalayas", on top of which, at 15 meters, there is a table for lovers. In the village there is an amphitheater, or a summer scene in the open for the event, explains Stanojlovic that every question about invested money into it just shakes his hand away.

In the village there is a prison where anyone to imagine who he wants, but there is also a blacksmith shop in the open, so visitors could learn how Serbian blacksmiths worked century or two ago. In the complex of Rasa village there is also a pond.

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Stanojlovic Rasa pictured the village as a combination of rural tourism and leisure, and education on rural architecture, culture, healthy food, art.

Stanojlovic goal is, as he says, primarily the preservation of Serbian villages, however, at least those six months when in Serbia, he organized exhibitions of traditional crafts, outdoor concerts, art exhibitions.

Village in those periods is visited by tourists from Europe, but also Japan, China, America. However, when Rasa goes back to Southern California where she lives, the village dies.

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- I spent years since 2007. calling head people of governments to  deal with the opportunities to revive rural tourism, because we have something to offer. In vain! I repeated that our children will forget the village, who are our ancestors, that even now, many barely know how to describe a cow. Again in vain! I thought that if more people interested in this kind of holiday in the countryside, but many are more interested in a good roasting in the pub with the singer.

Also, for years I sought in vain for hosts for the village, someone who could lead this when I'm not here, said a bit frustrated creator of this unusual idea.

The Tourist Organizationof  Lazarevac say Rasa village began to operate, but ceased.

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- It would mean a lot to us that Rasa village comes to life because it was a place we could recommend to Lazarevac guests, especially foreign. We are here to support and promote this idea, but the facility needs to operate continuously, all year long - explains Snezana Gajic, director of the Tourist Organization of Lazarevac.

Stanojlovic says he is determined to persevere because he thinks he is doing something good, "something for the benefit of our culture, our traditions, a country that is in a difficult economic crisis".

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(Telegraf.co.uk)