Castles & Palaces
Samuel's Fortress walls overlooking the shores of Lake Ohrid

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Castles in North Macedonia

On the shore of Europe’s oldest lake, Ohrid was the capital of a medieval empire and remains one of the most concentrated sites of Byzantine and medieval heritage in the Balkans. Samuel’s Fortress — built by Tsar Samuel of the First Bulgarian Empire in the late 10th century — crowns the hill above a town of Byzantine churches, Hellenistic ruins, and a UNESCO-protected lake that has existed unchanged for three million years.

Kale Fortress on its volcanic hill above Skopje, North Macedonia — Byzantine curtain walls overlooking the Old Bazaar and the Vardar River

north macedonia · Skopje, capital of North Macedonia

Kale Fortress

The fortress above Skopje — Byzantine and Ottoman layers guarding North Macedonia's capital since antiquity

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Samuel's Fortress walls above Ohrid old town and Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia
UNESCO

north macedonia · Ohrid Municipality

Samuel's Fortress

The citadel of Tsar Samuel, towering above Ohrid and its UNESCO lake

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