Highlights

Makedonium The complex of monuments called Ilinden is also known as Makedonium, and it is one of the most remarkable monuments in Krushevo as well as in Macedonia. The monument was opened on the 2nd of August 1974, on the celebration of the 30th anniversary of ASNOM and the 71st anniversary of...

Heraclea Lyncestis (4th century BC) Heraclea Lyncestis is one of the most famous ancient Macedonian Cities, situated in the vicinity of the city of Bitola. It was founded in the middle of the 4th century C by the Macedonian King Phillip the Second, father of Alexander the Great. The city grew into...

Shirok Sokak In the year of 1851, the Austrian-Hungariam Emire opened the first consulate in Bitola, exactly in Shirok Sokak. Later on, the British and the French would follow this example, and afterwards the consuls of Russia, Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania came. The first lights on Shirok...

The Clock Tower (17th century) The Clock Tower is the most remarkable monument by which Bitola is identified. It is located in the center of Bitola where the Clock Tower dominates the space because of its height. Although there is no record for its construction, it is believed that it was built...

The Cave Church St. Archangel Mihail (13th century) In one of the most beautiful places on the western shore of Lake Ohrid, into the natural cave located above each other, high on the rock, onto the steep rock above the village Radozhda is the church dedicated to the military commander of Divine...

Bay of the Bones Bay of the Bones is reconstructed prehistoric settlement dating back to the 12th – 7th centuries BC, it is set onto a platform supported by wooden stakes. It is a new-open museum on water, there are exhibited the relicts of the wooden settlement found in water, there is a diving...

Monastery Saint Naum of Ohrid The monastery was built on a high cliff above Lake Ohrid on the ultimate south point in a place with rare natural beauty. This monastery is one of the most significant spiritual monuments of medieval Macedonian past. Building of this monastery is connected to the name...

Samuil’s Fortress This Fortress is trademark of Ohrid and it is one of the biggest medieval towns on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia. Samuil’s Fortreess was mentioned in the 5th century AD by the Roman historians, therefore Ohrid as well as a lot of cities all over Europe was defending...

Galichnik Wedding Festival St. Peter’s day 12th of July, Galichnik is alive as it used to be. It is a day of splendid costumes, magnificent ceremonies and rituals of the unique Galichnik Wedding whose wider significance comes to its crown by entering the treasury of spiritual values of humanity...

An impressive granite arch built in memory of WWI troops .The monument, designed by Petre Antonescu, was built between 1921-1922, renovated between 1935-1936 and renovated again starting in 2014. The machetes were made by plastic artists, and for the sculpting of the marble of Ruşchita, besides the...