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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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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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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