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Kulasi Therme is located about 14 kilometers from Prnjavor on the road to Teslic, at the foot of the mountain Ljubic (an elevation of 596m). From the beginning of 2015 it operates as Kulasi Therme Ltd. Its owner, the entrepreneur from Prnjavor, immediately started with its entire detailed rear segment and the most modern reconstruction with the wish to place it not just to the home market but on the European market as well. He wanted to make it a modern, professionally organized and adequately equipped spa with superbly trained staff.
Kulasi Therme is built near the thermal spring of an extremely curative and unique, highly alkaline, oligo-sulfide hypothermal water with a temperature of 27-28 degrees Celsius. It is bacteriologically completely sterile with constant quality and an incredibly high pH which equals 11.75. According to current knowledge, there are only two more thermal springs in Europe and four in the World, which means that there are only six thermal springs of mineral water of the same quality.
Banja Luka is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the de facto capital of its Republika Srpska entity. She is located about 50 kilometers from Prnjavor. It is the traditional centre of the densely-forested Bosanska Krajina region located in northwestern Bosnia. According to the 2013 census, the city proper has a population of 138,963, while its administrative area comprises a total of 185,042 inhabitants.
The city is home to the University of Banja Luka as well as numerous state and entity institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The city lies on the Vrbas River and is well known in the countries of the former Yugoslavia for being full of tree-lined avenues, boulevards, gardens, and parks.
Kastel Fortress is medieval but is situated on the site of previous fortifications going all the way back to Roman and even pre-Roman times. The fortress is relatively well-preserved, and is one of Banja Luka's main attractions, situated on the left bank of the Vrbas river in the very center of town.
Osovica Monastery is a monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church, belongs to the Diocese of Banja Luka. The monastery is being restored on the foundations of the former monastery. The foundations of the monastery were discovered in 2003 at the site of the Monastery near the river Osovica on Motajica. The age of the foundation dates back to the late 13th or early 14th century. A story The old monastery belonged to the Usor area, which was under the rule of Vladislav the Second, the son of Stefan Dragutin. It was first demolished in the early 16th century, "when the Turks conquered Bosnia. It was later rebuilt several times during the 17th century, when it was abandoned until 2003, when its rebuilding began. The Osovica Monastery is mentioned in many documents together with the Stuplje Monastery, and the fate of the monastery is closely linked to the Stuplje Monastery because they were also killed in the Austrian-Turkish wars that took place in these territories during the 17th and 18th centuries. After the destruction of the monastery, Muslims settled in this area, ie. the area south of the Sava, which has been a natural border for a long time. At the beginning of the 19th century, a Turkish captain from Kobas sold all the stone from the demolished church to the Austrians in Slavonian Kobas for the construction of houses. Only the foundation remained. The monastery seal of the Osovica monastery is preserved in the Gomionica monastery. He was in 1883 with priest pop priest Kosta Dusanic. The renovation of the monastery started in 2003 with the blessing of the bishop of Bishop Ephraim of Banja Luka is still ongoing. A church, a tavern, a dining room are being built. On July 25, 2017, the monastery was consecrated in the presence of the Patriarch of Serbian Irinej. One of the monks of this monastery is Dositej Crncevic.
