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Skopje
Vacations, Macedonia
Skopje is the capital and most important city in Macedonia. At first
sight it looks like a very modern city. A visit to the parts of Old
Skopje that survived the catastrophic 1963 earthquake will show you
that it is actually a city with a long and rich past.
Dominated by the Skopje Fortress, the Old Town comprises about 1,000
shops, grills, restaurants, and pastry shops and is the location of
the Church of the Holy Saviour with its unique iconostasis executed
in masterful woodcarving (18-l9th centuries). The yard of this
church houses the sarcophagus with the body of the ideologist of the
Macedonian national liberation movement, Goce Delcev (1872-1903).
Other sights here include the Kursumli An (l6th century) and the
Suli An (l5th century) caravanserais, and the Daut Pasha Baths (l5th
century) with its two large and eleven small domes, now housing the
Art Gallery. Other buildings which may be found here are the Hjuncar
Mosque (l5th century), the Clock Tower (l6th century), the Isak-Bey
Mosque (l5th century) and the Mustapha Pasha Mosque (l5th century).
Source:
world66.com
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