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Project: Skopje tour – City Tour of the Decade
What is cultural heritage about? Does people from some country can recognize in the present, what kind of category will be included on the heritage list in the future? What are the character and the impact of this heritage projects for the new generations? These are some of the questions I am facing of as an archaeologist and as a professional tourist guide every day. And actually, how it looks like for I day, if you imagine that you are a tourist in your own city, and you hiring a guide to tell you the story.
In his latest project entitled “City Tour 2000-2010“, the artist Zoran Poposki hired me, because I work both, with cultural heritage and with tourism. This time I gave him a tour of the cultural landmarks created during the last decade in Skopje, the city we have lived in since our birth.
In the description of the project, he will write: ”The tour of the new icons of the urban cultural landscape is set out against a background of massive economic and social transformation of public space in this post-socialist city, resulting in an increased need for interpretation of this new topography of meaning”.
Photo documentation of the tour can be seen here.
The photographies are property of @Zoran Poposki
Ohrid – Macedonia’s forgotten gem
Ohrid, the cradle of Christianity and cyrilic letter, home of more than 300 churches in the region, mostly of Byzantium period.
This is the front and the revers view of Macedonian 1000 denars (~16EUR), issue 1996 and issue 2003. Front view is taken from the church of St.Vrachi-Mali, Ohrid, early XIV century. The Icon of the Madonna Episkepsis is depicted in its true dimensions, with an image of the Christ Child in the right. The presence of tow angeles in the upper corners of the icon symbolize the depiction of the Sorrowful Virgin. Reverse view represents detail (external additions built by Archbishop Grigorie in the 14th century) from the church of “St. Sofia” in Ohrid, originally built in X-XI centuries. This church was the seat of the Ohrid archbishopric, and contains many invaluable frescoes from XI ond XIV centuries.
Rich with prehistory and remains form antique period, such as the Ancient theatre, that what is visible currently in Ohrid, is built mainly between the 7th and 19th centuries; it has the oldest Slav monastery (St Pantelejmon) and more than 800 Byzantine-style icons dating from the 11th to the end of the 14th century. After those of the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow, the Icon Galerry in Ohrid is considered to be the most important collection of icons in the world.
I am guiding a tour in Ohrid. In the back is the church of
St. Jovan Kaneo, 13th century (1,2).
Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region, since 1980, is listed on UNESCO heritage list. Ohrid, personally for me is one of the most adorable cities in Macedonia. This is a reportage coved by CNN about Ohrid – Macedonia’s forgotten gem.
