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Virgin Beauty

Located in the Balkan Peninsula, Macedonia is a tiny but unusual country, offering guests an unusual mix of natural beauty, tradition, culture and a worm welcome. High mountains, green valleys and grand blue lakes wait for your wonderment. It’s still one of Europe’s last remaining heaven.

The timeless city of Ohrid, located at the coast of the beautiful Lake Ohrid, is undisputebly the most ashonishing place in Macedonia, a living example of old and unique architecture and the center of Macedonia’s cultural and historical heritige. Lichnidos is it’s old name, the name which was used to refer to that entire area, the settlement and the Ohrid Lake next to it.Built mostly between the 7th and the 19th century, it has the most ancient Slav monastery (St. Pantelejmon) and more than 800 icons of Byzantine style, painted between the 11th and the end of the 14th century, which are considered to be, after those of the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow, the most important collection in the world.
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Macedonia Landmarks

A landlocked nation within the central Balkan Peninsula, Macedonia may be a fusion of various cultures. The mix of cultures is also a consequence of a long history of foreign power Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Yugoslav. The architecture of its capital metropolis, Skopje, manifests this kind of blend, from the Ottoman paved streets, to ancient Yugoslav building, to red-bricked Byzantine churches and Roman houses.

The Skopje aqueduct also shows a Roman impact in the country, but more than that, it’s an apparent of urbanization throughout the olden times. Connecting the past as well as the contemporary locations could be the Stone Bridge, probably the most prominent landmark of the town.
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Mixed cultures and modern places

A landlocked nation in the central Balkan Peninsula, Macedonia may be a fusion of various cultures. The mix of cultures is also an effect of a lengthy record of foreign power Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Yugoslav. The architecture of its capital urban centre, Skopje, manifests this kind of blend, from the Ottoman paved streets, to ancient Yugoslav building, to red-bricked Byzantine churches and Roman houses.

The Skopje aqueduct also shows a Roman effect in the country, but far more than that, it really is a plain of urbanization in the course of the olden times. Connecting the past and also the modern places is the Stone Bridge, one of the most striking landmark from the town.
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Macedonia Cities

Skopje is the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. As largest city in the country, it is a political, economic, and cultural center of Macedonia, known by its varied architecture and its mix of cultures,It lies on the upper course of the Vardar River and is located on a major north-south Balkan route between Belgrade and Athens.

The first impression of a visitor to Skopje is invariably the same: it is a new and modern city. It is a trading center for the cotton, tobacco, grains, and livestock produced in the surrounding region. The city also has manufacturing facilities for iron and steel, electrical machinery, chemicals, textiles, carpets, and foods. In Skopje You can find modern hotels above cobblestoned Ottoman streets, stately neoclassical homes right around the corner, chic cafes, shopping malls and brightly-colored new offices, red-bricked Byzantine churches and rounded Turkish mosques.
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