Skopje Travel Guide

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).