Historic Site
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Medveđa Vampire Site
Medveđa, a quiet village on the West Morava River near Trstenik, is historical ground for the most famous official vampire epidemic in world history. In the winter of 1731–1732, Austrian imperial authorities conducted a medical investigation following seventeen mysterious deaths attributed to Arnold Paole (Arnaut Pavle), a Serbian hajduk who claimed to have been bitten by a vampire while stationed in Ottoman Greece. The resulting official medical report, titled 'Visum et Repertum' ('Seen and Discovered') and signed by five Austrian military surgeons, was published across Europe, sparking the 18th-century European 'Vampire Controversy' and directly shaping modern vampire literature.