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   Church of St. Sophia

   A church built in the eleventh century as the cathedral of the Ohrid archbishopric, on the foundations of an earlier basilica. Its frescoes are among the most important of that century anywhere; under the Ottomans it was a mosque, which is why they survived under plaster.

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   Church of St. John at Kaneo

   A small thirteenth-century church on a cliff over the lake, brick and stone in alternating bands under a Byzantine dome. It is the most photographed building in North Macedonia, and the path to it runs along the water from the old town.

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   Samuil's Fortress

   The fortress above the old town, on ground fortified since antiquity and named for Tsar Samuel, who made Ohrid his capital around 1000. Much of the curtain wall and eighteen towers survive, and the walk along the top gives the lake end to end.

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   Saint Panteleimon

   A church on the Plaošnik terrace, founded by St Clement in the ninth century as the seat of his school, where the Cyrillic alphabet was developed and taught. It was rebuilt in 2002 over the excavated foundations, and Clement's grave is inside.

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   Ancient Theatre of Ohrid

   Built around 200 BC, this is the only Hellenistic theatre in North Macedonia — those at Scupi, Stobi and Heraclea Lyncestis are all Roman. Two hills shelter the bowl from the wind, which keeps its acoustics clean. Romans staged gladiator fights here, and only the lower tiers survive.

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   Galičica National Park

   A national park on the ridge between Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa in North Macedonia. It was designated in 1958, and alpine meadow and beech forest run along the crest dividing the two lakes.

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   Plaošnik

   The terrace between the fortress and the lake where Ohrid's earliest Christian buildings stood, dug since the 1960s. Fifth-century basilica floors in mosaic are on show, together with the rebuilt church of St Clement and the foundations of his monastery school.

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   Trebeništa

   An Iron Age burial ground of about the seventh century BC near the northern shore of Lake Ohrid. It is taken to have served the people of the nearby Illyrian city of Lychnidos, and its gold funerary masks are among the richest finds in the Balkans.

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   Saraj Resen

   A neoclassical mansion built at Resen in the later nineteenth century by the local bey, Ahmet Niyazi Bey. Its style makes it a rarity in North Macedonia.

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    Robevi family house

    A merchant's house of 1863-64 in the local style — a stone ground floor with timber upper storeys oversailing the street — built for the Robevi, one of Ohrid's trading families. It now holds the national museum's archaeology and ethnography collections.

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   Ali Pasha Mosque

   The principal mosque of Ohrid, built in 1573 on the site of the old market. The office of the mufti is here.

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   Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments and National Museum

   A scientific, research and cultural institution at Ohrid in North Macedonia. It has departments of archaeology, history, ethnology, architecture, art history and contemporary art, with a library and a photographic workshop.

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   Paleochristian Church

   The remains of a church at Lin in Korçë county in Albania. Excavation uncovered mosaics of the fourth and fifth centuries, and it is listed as a cultural monument of Albania.

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