On 19.05.2019 within the national ICOM program for the International Museum Day 2019, HAEMUS organized an educational “Skopje Ottoman Heritage tour”. Our walking tour comprised the cultural and historical monuments of the Ottoman period in which belongs all those architectural objects that have been built since the arrival of the Turks in Macedonia in winter 1391-92 up until the Balkan Wars, and they survive in an authentic or reconstructed form by today. The architectural heritage of the Ottoman Empire has left impressive monuments in Skopje, mainly visible in the old part of the city. Due to
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Little did I know that one my favourite piazzas in Romania was hiding a secret beneath its modern European facade. I’d heard rumours that Piata Libertati (Liberty Square) in the city of Timisoara was the site of a magnificent Turkish bath during the Ottoman era (1552-1716). But I’d never seen any sign of that world other than a small plaque with Arabic writing on the wall of a nearby building. Then in September 2014 I returned to the city on Romania’s western frontier and discovered something exciting: archaeologists had unearthed the 400-year-old bathhouse known as the
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UNESCO Club HAEMUS with the support of the City Museum of Skopje and Macedonia Vision (incoming tourist program by SAVANA Tourist Enterprises), for the International Museum Day 2014, organizes an educational ‘Skopje Ottoman Heritage tour‘. Date: 18.05.2014 (Sunday) Meeting point: at the gate of the Old Bazaar (entrance from Bit Pazar) Time: 10:00 to 13:00 pm Type: Half day walking tour Guide: Dimitrovska Vasilka, archaeologist and licensed tourist guide Host: HAEMUS – center for scientific research and promotion of culture Partners: City Museum of Skopje and SAVANA Tourist Enterprises Ottoman heritage tour of Skopje includes
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