Skopje City Walking Tour

Skopje City Walking Tour

Enjoy a relaxing city tour at your pace.Take your time to stroll the cobbled streets of the Old Bazaar,visit the Kale Fortress overlooking the city, and experience the atmosphere of both old and modern Skopje.During the 4 hours, not only will you see Turkish baths, mosques, caravan sarays, incredible churches and museums. but also the buildings of the project "Skopje 2014" that changed the face of the city centre in only 7 years. Being in the birthplace of the Nobel peace prize winner, Mother Teresa, and of the great Byzantine emperor, Justinian the First, you'll be surprised how tradition and history in Skopje interweave with the new and modern. A walk across the main square will take you to the site where Mother Teresa's house used to stand  and then through Gate Macedonia to the park opposite the Parliament. Then walk back to Street Macedonia connecting the square to the Old Railway Station, where you will also visit Mother Teresa Memorial House.

This entirely walking city tour starts at the clients' hotel if it is located in the city centre or if not, it starts at the main square "Macedonia" in front of the statue of Alexander the Great. First the tour is done on the right bank of the River Vardar, which is the modern part of Skopje where the Woman Fighter Park is visited and the Parliament (from outside), then Mother Teresa Memorial house which is a modest free of charge museum, then the Museum of Skopje (also free of charge) situated in the partially destroyed Old Railway Station. Afterwards, a walk across the square and over the Stone Bridge takes us to another smaller square with the Statue of Philip II, and soon we enter the Old Bazaar where at least one caravan saray is visited (Kapan Han), then one of the two Turkish Baths converted to a National Gallery of Macedonia, and afterwards we continue strolling through the Old Bazaar to go up to Mustafa Pasha Mosque (dated 1492) and the Fortress Kale (originally built in the 6th century AD). In the meantime or on our way back we may visit the Church of the Ascension of Christ (Sveti Spas) with its remarkable wood-carved iconostasis dating back to the 19th century. A short coffee break in the Old Bazaar is optional. Start time of the tour depends on the clients' wish. Museums usually open at 8 or 9 a.m. and close at 4 or 5 p.m. At the weekend they close a few hours earlier, so if you are interested in visiting museums, the tour should start at least a few hours before closing times. Monday is a non-working day for museums. Admission tickets for museums and food and beverages are not included in the price.