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• Kale

  
  Skopje » Sightseeing » 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 the early Byzantine era (6th-7th century), the big blocks dragged from Scupi, the nearby town that was destroyed in the 518AD earthquake. Read on
  

• Holiday Inn

  
  Skopje » Hotels » Cream of the crop

  A great beast of a hotel situated in an enviable position close to the Kej and just across the river from the old bazaar. Featuring all of your Holiday Inn favourites including the usual agreeable rooms, facilities include baths in all the bathrooms, some balconies, non-stop erotic television, minibars and room service. Read on
  

• Stone Bridge

  
  Skopje » Hotels » Cream of the crop

  The kind of hotel that makes anyone but the richest of millionaires feel like a homeless wretch, Stone Bridge comes with shades of Ottoman opulence, a shiny lobby, glistening brass fittings and equally well-polished staff. Read on
  

• Beerhouse An

  
  Skopje » Restaurants » Macedonian

  Impeccable service and sumptuous surroundings with a magnificent summer terrace, although it brands itself as a beer house Beerhouse An is in actual fact a fine Macedonian restaurant. Read on
  

• St. Pantelejmon Monastery

  
  Skopje » Sightseeing » 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 within its walls a treat beyond comparison for anyone with even a passing intereSt. Read on
  

• Macedonia Square

  
  Skopje » Sightseeing » 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 nondescript architecture, Makedonija Square feels a bit large and empty nowadays. Read on