Macedonia is a historical and geographical region in Greece situated in the south-eastern part of Europe. It is the second most populated and largest region in Greece and it is informally known as Northern Greece together with Thrace and Thessaly.

There are two types of climates in the region including Alpine in the mountain areas and Mediterranean or Temperate types in Central and East areas. Macedonia is an area of Greece popular with tourists who like to stay in holiday rentals. There is a great selection of holiday villas and self catering holiday apartments in Macedonia that can be rented as self catering holiday accommodation.
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Macedonia is an exotic non-coastal country, delimited by the neighboring countries like Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria etc. Its history states that it was the territory of the legendary king Alexander the Great in past. Skopje, the capital city of Macedonia was rebuilt after a dreadful earthquake in 1963. It is the most stunning region enriched with natural exquisiteness, top- rated cuisines and beautiful historical buildings.

A beautiful turquoise stream passes through the city of Skopje. It houses sports hubs, archaeological locations, a marvelous fortification and many cultural monuments. Many deep, dark caves inhabit the monstrous canyons of the River Treska.
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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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What we could found in Macedonian? We’re talking about foods and beverages. We could see laden with sweet peppers, vine leaves and chopska, all piled high in great bowls as ad lib accompaniments to the main courses which were always in the plural. It is mostly sheep country and lamb cuts of every sort abound along with sheep’s cheese and sheep’s yogurt.

A speciality is Ohrid trout which come out of this 15-mile lake at 10 lbs and over and taste like the most delicious fresh salmon. Chatting to some locals one morning in a pub in Prilep, I was told that I must eat some sheeden for lunch. The Macedonia House Restaurant produced some within a half-hour and special it was. Made in a sheep’s stomach, whereas haggis has offal and oatmeal, sheeden has real meat – chopped lamb, pork, beef and chicken – with rice. “Puts hair on the chest” suggested Slobodan, our driver.
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It was home to Alexander the Great and Mother Theresa but Macedonia is now a tourist destination.
Konstantin’s first words to us were “Macedonians welcome guests at midnight the same as at mid-day. They welcome with spring water, bread, cheese and salt, fruit and brandy. They kiss three times – for life, for death and for honour.”
He was fair-skinned, dark-haired and handsome and, like most of the people we saw in the streets of the towns, dressed in western-style clothes.

Konstantin, like everyone in the towns, wanted to practise English . Their own language is, to say the least, complex. “It is not like Serbian”, he said “Or even Slav”. “More like Bulgarian”. “I see”, I said, “Quite so!”
In town there was little sign of those round Balkan hats or women’s headscarves that you see in pictures supposedly showing the typical local dweller. These were the preserve of the villages.
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