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  • Churches & Monasteries

    Explore Macedonia's churches and monasteries, a total of 992, featuring 150,000sq.m of fresco paintings, 23,000 icons, 240 iconostases, and other church items carved in wood. Macedonia’s churches and monasteries are among the country’s most precious treasures...

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  • Ancient Towns

    Explore Macedonia's ancient towns with all the secrets and mysteries that are hiding among ruins. Ancient towns in Macedonia are among the country’s most precious treasures, where the spiritual and artistic heritage of the Old Neolithic and Hellenic period magnificently preserved...

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  • Fortress

    The first fortress in Macedonia located in Skopje  was built in 6th century AD on a land that had been inhabited during the Neolithic and Bronze ages or roughly 4000 BC It was constructed with yellow limestone and travertine and along with fragments of Latin inscriptions, assert the idea that the material...

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  • Ancient Megalithic Observatory "Kokino"

    Kokino is a Bronze Age archaeological site in the Republic of Macedonia, approximately 30 km from the town of Kumanovo, and about 6 km from the Serbian border, in the Staro Nagoričane municipality. It is situated between about 1010 and 1030 m above sea level...

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  • Millennium cross

    The Millennium Cross (Macedonian: Милениумски крст, Latinic: Mileniumski krst) is a 66 metre-high cross situated on the top of the Vodno Mountain in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. It was constructed to serve as a memorial of 2,000 years of Christianity in Macedonia and the world.

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  • Stone Dolls of Kuklica

    The most famous legend is that of a man who could not decide which of two women he should marry. So, the man planned to marry each woman on the same day at different times. When the first wedding was in progress, the woman to marry the man second went to see who was...

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  • Roman Bath Bansko

    At 12 km from the town of Strumica, at the northern foot of Mount Belasitza, located are strong hot water springs with a temperature of 72 ° C. The source is located in the village of Bansko, which is the main reason why water baths once got the present name. Near the source "Parilo" located is the Roman bath...

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  •  Old Bazaar - Skopje

    The Old Bazaar falls within the borders of Centar and Čair municipalities and is a protected national landmark.The earliest known documented sources that point out to the existence of a merchant quarter on the bazaar's territory date back to the 12th century. During the Ottoman rule with the...

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