Koćuša Tavern
horse riding; horse tending tasks; horse shoeing; homemade products
If you want to ride a horse or learn how to do it, you should find two beautiful sisters in Sovići, Melani and Marija Pejić, the owners of the Equestrian Club Stina. They will take you for a ride across the fields, through the woods and along the rivers and show you distant caravan roads used for transporting goods in the Middle Ages.
Address
Equestrian Club Stina
Sovići
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Caravan Routes in the Middle Ages
For peasants who lived on feudal estates in the fertile river valleys (The Rivers Neretva, Bregava, Buna and Trebišnica), in the karst fields of lower Herzegovina, life was hard. Most of the peasants were farmers who leased their land and also paid taxes to the rulers. Most farmers were not free, but rather were serfs. They were required to stay with the land and had to work for the noblemen on their land reserves described in some Ottoman documents from the fifteenth century as „hassa zemlje“. As peasants generally lived off the land their diet was based on their own products so the population of Herzegovina was forced to cultivate all accessible farming land and grow different fruit and vegetables as well as use all edible wild plants and also keep farm animals.
