Travel Guide Veska ())

North-west of Grafschina, Veska became a village in 1801. In the same year the church of St. Nicholas was built. The origin of the village's name is itself controversial: it is said to have been inherited from a Finno-Ugric tribe (the Meria), who lived there between the 5th and 7th centuries, or it may come from a Belarusian word meaning "the camp" and is therefore linked to the Polish and Lithuanian invasions. What is certain is that the area to the west of the village was used as a place of confinement for bandits and adventurers. It was here that the famous Portuguese missionary in exile Nicholas de Mello took refuge at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century