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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Macedonian monasteries and mosques, 11th century Byzantine art , bargain shopping and Lake Ohrid, the oldest in Europe, are reasons to visit this world heritage site. Not only is Ohrid one of the most pleasant places in the Republic of Macedonia. It’s also one of the most historically significant in Eastern Europe. The city (then called Lichnidos) dates back about 2,500 years, long before Alexander the Great set out from the Macedonian kingdom to conquer the world.

Sandstone and stucco houses tumble down the hills to the shores of Lake Ohrid, which forms part of boundary with Albania. It’s a place of winding cobblestone streets with postcard views around every turn. Its lake oldest in Europe and one of the oldest on earth in 1979 was declared a World Heritage Site.
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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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