page_title: Pećka Banja
section_title: Tourism
hierarchical_section_title: Pećka Banja / Tourism
caption_attribution_description: English: The Church of St John the Baptist was completed in 1998 as the Rajovic family foundation in Pecka Banja.
context_page_description: Pećka Banja is a township located in the municipality of Istok, Kosovo. To many people it is known by the name Ilixhe. It is a tourist health center with services in Istoк and in the region, offering quality for inhabitation, highly developed infrastructure and services.
context_section_description: The main orientation towards economic development of Pećka Banja is health tourism indeed.
  Dating from Illyrio-Dardanians times, tourism in the spa of Peć was a developed one, therefore water springs were used by many people of that time to cure different illnesses that came from other places. Even nowadays, these water springs are used for the same purpose. The difference today is that now we have a much better tourist infrastructure which is now in all corners of Kosovo and further.
  Part of tourism is the mosque, church and the park. The mosque is located by the end of the main road (center of this town). The park is located in the left side of the center, which is a forest filled with trees. Within this forest is ‘hidden” the small house of stone which has the thermal source.
  The tourist attractions located close to Pećka Banja are: Rugova, the legacy of Peć and Deçan, the fount of Drin, Istok, Vrelo, the mountains around etc.
caption: Serbian Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist
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