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A pearl on the lake taking its name, Ohrid is more than just a fancy tourist spot in Macedonia: it is rich in history, beautifully located, offers some great places to relax on the lake, and has marvellous sunsets.
With a town so much steeped in history, it is hardly surprising that there are still many visible remnants of those golden years of this lakeside town. We started walking up the cobble-stone streets of the old town until we reached the Roman theatre, a classical marble amphitheatre that the Romans adapted to be able to host gladiator games. Nowadays, it is being used for summer performances. Close by, we found the Sveta Bogorodica Perivlepta, an orthodox church with incredibly beautiful frescoes inside, especially in the ceiling of the chapel. Apart from the frescoes, the omnipresent icons are worth seeing. Passing the Upper Gate, an old city gate of Ohrid, we continued to Samuil Fortress. This was the stronghold of the former capital of the Bulgarian Empire, until the Byzantines and later the Ottomans changed the fate of Ohrid. According to researchers, it was built on the foundations of a much older, 4th century BCE fortress by Phillip II of Madecon.
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