An ancient city founded by Philip II of Macedon in the 4th century BC, on the edge of Bitola. Its highlights are the beautiful early Christian floor mosaics of animals and plants, a Roman theatre and baths.
Bitola, the country's second city, has an elegant pedestrian street, the Širok Sokak, lined with 19th-century consulates and cafés, and an old bazaar. Pelister National Park, with its glacial 'eyes' lakes, is nearby.
One of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes, shared with Albania, with Ohrid town on its shore, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A monastery in the mountains of western North Macedonia, famous for its spectacular carved wooden iconostasis, with hundreds of human and animal figu…
A deep canyon on the Treska River just outside Skopje, with medieval monasteries clinging to the cliffs.
One of the largest old bazaars in the Balkans, a lively Ottoman quarter with mosques, caravanserais and hammams, now galleries, and narrow lanes of c…
A Bronze Age megalithic observatory about 3,800 years old, on a volcanic hill near Kumanovo, where marks carved in the rocks line up with the sunrise…
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