IN THE SPOTLIGHT

• Kale

  
  Essential Skopje

  People have been camping out on the strategically placed hill above what is now the bazaar area since before the Bronze Age. A town was first started here in
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• Mustafa Pasha Mosque

  
  Ottoman Skopje

  Towering above the old bazaar area with its 16-metre-wide dome and thin 42-metre-high minaret, the elegant Mustafa Pasha Mosque was built in
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• Church of the Holy Saviour

  
  Churches

  This small church can easily be overlooked by the careless tourist as it huddles behind a massive wall with just the wooden bell tower sticking out. The
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• National Museum

  
  Museums

  The large white building just below the Mustafa Pasha mosque houses the rambling and under-appreciated National Museum. The ethnographic section houses a
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• St. Pantelejmon Monastery

  
  St. Pantelejmon

  Built in 1164 by Alexis Comnène (Aleksij Komnen), the grandson of Emperor Alexis the First, the humble looking Orthodox St. Pantelejmon Monastery hides
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• Macedonia Square

  
  Essential Skopje

  Dramatically widened by the destruction of the massive neoclassical National Bank and Army House during the 1963 earthquake and now surrounded mostly by
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