Rusenički Podgor is the pearl of Metohija, Metohija's Svetigora. It got its name from the most beautiful among the Šar mountains, the Rusenica mountain, in whose hills medieval hermitages are still hidden, among them that of Saint Peter of Koriša.
Neither Rusenica nor Podgor are the same anymore, in the villages of Mačitevo, Dvorane, Selogražde, and the largest medieval Mušutište, where Serbs and their sanctuaries lived for centuries, church bells are no longer heard, there are no Serbian weddings and baptisms, no Serbian songs.
Neither time nor various conquerors have managed to destroy what some wild hordes at the end of the twentieth century did. The expelled Serbs trust in God because some who call themselves people do not allow them to return to their village to renew their sanctuaries. They pray for the appearance of a new benefactor like the nobleman Dragoslav who in 1315 erected the magnificent temple of Our Lady Odigitria.
There are no more benefactor's inscriptions, iconostases, or stunning frescoes of Saint Clement of Ohrid, nor throne icons of Christ and the Virgin. A pile of rubble on the altar, only the bell tower remains, defiant and proud, as if at any moment the bells will ring to announce that in Rusenički Podgor the Holy Liturgy is again served in this and in the Churches of Saint Simeon, Saint Petka, Archangel Michael, and in the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, and after the Liturgy in the churchyards as in the old times the Metohija song 'Što se beli more gore Šar planina.'
Prizren Podgor is divided into Župski Podgor and Rusenički Podgor. Rusenički Podgor consists of over twenty villages at the foot of Rusenica mountain, on the right side of the Prizren-Pristina road.