4-Hour Skopje Highlights Tour

Skopje Skyline

Highlights

Skopje

nature, historical, sightseeing

Group Tour

4 Hours

Easy

English

Description

Explore the highlights of Skopje, the capital and largest city of North Macedonia, inhabited since at least 4000 BC. Walk through the lanes of this ancient city and discover all the monuments that have given the city its unique identity. Visit Mustapha Pasha Mosque, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Macedonia, Old Bazaar, Holocaust Memorial Centre, and Memorial House of Mother Teresa.

Itinerary

Skopje Highlights Tour
- Travel to the plateau area where the Museum of Contemporary Art is located.
- Enjoy the wonderful views of the central part of Skopje on the way.
- Visit the Fortress Kale.
- Continue to the Mustapha Pasha Mosque and then to the Church of the Holy Saviour.
- Explore the small museum of Goce Delchev, which is in the same churchyard.
- Move to the Museum of Macedonia, which consists of an iconic gallery, an ethnological and historical department.
- Stroll through the Old Bazaar where two caravanserais and two Turkish Baths- Chifte Hammam and Daut Pasha Hammam, dating back to the 15th century, can be seen.
- Drive towards the modern part of the city on the right bank of the River Vardar.
- Cross the Stone Bridge, one of the oldest landmarks of Skopje, to see the Holocaust Memorial Centre for the Jews of Macedonia and the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle for Independence, IMRO and the Victims of Communism.
- Proceed to the main square of Macedonia, which connects the square to the Old Railway Station and discover a lot of new statues and monuments.
- Visit the Memorial House of Mother Teresa and the Museum of the City of Skopje, situated in the building of the Old Railway Station, which was partially destroyed by the earthquake in 1963.
End of the tour.