Serbia. Culture and society Education Velika Plana has three elementary schools in the town itself: Sveti Sava (previously named Moša Pijade), Karađorđe (previously named Мiloš Mitrović), and Nadežda Petrović, and 11 in the surrounding suburbs and villages. It also has three high schools: a gymnasium, technical high school and business assistant high school. The Velika Plana Veterinary Centre started artificial insemination in cows in 1957 and later expanded to other livestock and claims to be one of the leading centres of its kind in Southeastern Europe. Leisure and historic monuments Town has large town park near centre and several smaller parks across town. At the outskirts of the town are three important ecclesiastical monuments: the early 15th century Koporin Monastery where Despot Stefan Lazarević, son of Prince Lazar of the Battle of Kosovo is buried; the early 19th century Pokajnica Monastery built as a sign of repentance (Serbian: /) by the murderer of Karađorđe, leader of the First Serbian Uprising and the founder of the Karađorđević royal family of Serbia and later Yugoslavia; as well as a small church built by King Alexander Karađorđević of Yugoslavia at the exact place of his ancestor's murder. The latter two are within from each other, and easily reachable by public transit. Koporin is more secluded but still within from the other two. Rock festival The Plana Demo Fest rock music festival has been organised since 2009 and is sponsored by the Velika Plana Youth Community Centre. Notable people Kosta Manojlović, ethnomusicologist, co-founder and the first dean of the Conservatory of Music at the University of Arts in Belgrade, born and grew up in Krnjevo Aleksandar Tirnanić, a pre-WW II football (soccer) player and coach, born in Krnjevo Radomir Lukić, jurist and the youngest person ever appointed as professor at the University of Belgrade Law School was born and grew up in Miloševac Velimir Živojinović Massuka, poet, translator, director in chief of the National Theatre in Belgrade, born and grew up in Velika Plana Vladimir Petković, art historian and archeologist, member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences Vojislav Koštunica, former President of Yugoslavia and Prime Minister of Serbia (spent summers in Miloševac during all of his childhood, see :sr: Милошевац and :sr: Војислав Коштуница) :sh:Snežana Savić, movie actress and singer, was born in Velika Plana. Miodrag Kojadinović, Canadian writer, lived in Velika Plana as a child. International relations Velika Plana is twinned