Pletvar – a village in the Raec area, in the Municipality of Prilep, on the road between the cities of Kavadarci and Prilep.
Pletvar is located near the eponymous pass, which divides the mountains Dren and Babuna and connects Pelagonija and the city of Prilep with Raec and Tikvesh. The village is mountainous and is located at an altitude of 990 m. It is 9 km away from the city of Prilep. The rural area covers an area of 18.8 km2. In the 19th century, Pletvar was a Macedonian village in the Prilep kaza of the Ottoman Empire. According to Georgi Trajchev, a school has been operating in the village since 1846, and in 1902 a new school building was built.
Archaeological sites:
Barichki Dol – a settlement from late antiquity;
Pletvar – a solitary find from Roman times;
Selishte – a solitary find from Roman times; and
Chashka – a solitary find from Roman times.
Duova Cave is located on the southeast side just below the Kozjak peak on Babuna Mountain. It is located on the right side of a deserted dry valley, just below the Kozjak peak at an altitude of 1670 meters. It is formed in calcite marbles. It has a total length of 81 meters, and from the decorations that are in small numbers, the basins in the form of balls stand out. It was investigated by PSK Zlatovrv from Prilep on April 9, 2006.
Inside the cave there is a spring called Duova Voda (Holy Spirit Water), whose waters the surrounding population believes are healing, so it is customary to visit the spring and fill it with water on Pentecost, which is why the water and the cave itself is called like this. There are several clay pots and bottles in the immediate vicinity of the spring, and there are a large number of coins in the spring itself.
In his book Materials for the Study of Macedonia, the Macedonian revolutionary Gjorce Petrov, describing the Kozjak peak, wrote that like all limestone mountains, Kozjak is very rich in underground caves and precipices, some of which are filled with water at the bottom. Two of them are better known: one at the top (Duova), another on the western slope above the village Oreovec (Ramnishte), and the second is known for the healing “Duova Voda” (water of the Holy Spirit, because they go to the Holy Spirit to be washed from it). After a narrow passage you enter the ground at 20-30 feet and reach a cave where the rocks get wet and a little water drips from them to the bottom. It is the “Holy Spirit Water”.
Source: Wikipedia
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