Place in Vardar, North Macedonia
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Sveti Nikole (Macedonian: Свети Николе) is a city in the east-central area of North Macedonia. It is a major settlement of the Ovče Pole, a relatively large plain in this mountainous country.
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Народен Музеј
The Municipality of Sveti Nikole maintains a museum housed in a neoclassical building. Among its objects are findings from the most important archaeological site in this area, Bylazora.
Саат-кула
Sveti Nikole's clock tower was erected in 1903, financed by a wealthy local merchant. It sits beside the Church of Saint Nicholas. The tower consists of three square sections, with the top capped by a pyramid.
Црква „Св. Никола“
The main church of Sveti Nikole is, of course, dedicated to Saint Nicholas. The church, built in the 1980s, is capped by multiple cupolas.
Црква „Св. Ѓорѓи“
This church, built in 1584, is the oldest existing structure in Lozovo Municipality. It is considered significant for its interior frescoes.
Билазора
This was the most important city of Paionia in early antiquity. Not a whole lot remains, though serious archaeological excavations only began in 2008.
Говедар камен
On the Ovče Pole plain between two villages is this massive megalithic rock. It is believed to have been used as a religious site in ancient times and is still regarded as a curative location.
Ѓуришки манастир
Founded in the 11th century, this monastery's current church was built in 1880. It was the site of a couple important events during the 20th century including hosting a congress of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization in 1907 and hosting anti-fascist soldiers during World War II.
Црква „Св. Никола“
The oldest preserved church in Ovče Pole, built in the 14th century atop foundations of an older church built in the 9th century. Its frescoes are particularly distinguished. Some of its icons are now on display at the museum in Sveti Nikole.
Ѓаволски ѕид
This natural phenomenon consists of a rock formation that forms a wall 500 m (1,640 ft) long, with smaller traces of it extending 5 km (3 mi). Its average height varies between 10 and 12 m (32 to 39 ft). The formation sits in a hardly accessible mountainous area. Local legend states that the devil built the wall with the intention of flooding the Bregalnica River and sinking Ovce Pole, but God sent a rooster to thwart completion of the wall.
Македонски геоглиф
This unique site contains a geoglyph which extends 90 m (295 ft) long and 45 m (148 ft) wide. Research on the site only really began in 2014. Findings indicate that the soil composition here is indeed different than the surrounding area which suggests artificial origin.
Бекирлија
This village gained fame in 2019 as the setting for the critically acclaimed Macedonian documentary Honeyland. The film follows one of Europe's last wild beekeepers, Hatidze Muratova, who lives in this village once populated by Turks but ultimately abandoned by almost all of them. Bekirljia is in Lozovo Municipality. Muratova has reportedly been moved into a new house in a nearby village where some friends and family live but if you want to see the beautiful scenery from the film for yourself, Bekirlija awaits you.
Sveti Nikole sits between Skopje and Štip on a modern expressway built in 2019. The area is also connected by rail with a train station in the village of Amzabegovo, south of Sveti Nikole.
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