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Ohrid's Monument - The Plane Tree

 

Girls and young brides stayed out of these man contracts and agreements, but were running around the Plane Tree to take water, to be seen and to gain the sympathies of some of the man. Under the Plane Tree, they were exchanging passion, talked about many contracts, agreements and conspiracies, some wits and cleverness.
             Under the Plane Tree, according to the legends, passed many drunks, worn-out people on the periphery of life, open-minded and beggars, wanderers, bullies. Here they celebrated the victories, here passed all the life from the top to the periphery. Wealthy Ohrid idlers and respectable people, Turkish Beys always met here. And all the others that somehow earned a little more money and wanted to gain more prestige, if not as the Ohrid elite, at least not to be on its tail, ran to sit here or there under the plane tree, and so to outwit the life.
             People could enter into the Plane tree like in the magical stories through several entrances from various sides and they could move inside the tree in many directions. There were fountains inside the tree, and in 1937 was opened the first city café. The number of living witnesses of that time can be counted on fingers, and the number of citizens who are psychophysical healthy so they can tell about the events of that period when they were children is even smaller. Fortunately, among the alive and aware citizens of that time is the last patriarch of Ohrid carving, Dimce Janko. .
             There were three fountains at the Plane Tree and the water came from Vidobishta. There were the springs and the watermills. Under the plane tree, which was hollow, but huge with green bark, there was a table, on which all Ohrid citizens, Turks and Macedonians were sitting together. The cafe served only coffee and tea, alcohol was not served. There was a large shed, and across the plane tree there was a bakery, several shops. My grandfather Vasil Struzhanche, known as dishlija, was a dentist, and worked here in one of the shops.


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