Žiča has great significance for the history of the Serbian people and their churches. It was here that Saint Sava, the first archbishop of the autonomous Serbian church, which gained its independence in 1219, established the seat of the Serbian church, crowned his brother as king and ordained the bishops of the newly-founded dioceses. The Žiča monastery is located on the Transromanica Cultural Route, is near Kraljevo at the entrance to the Ibar Gorge.
It was here that Saint Sava, the first archbishop of the autonomous Serbian church, which gained its independence in 1219, established the seat of the Serbian church, crowned his brother as king and ordained the bishops of the newly-founded dioceses.
