Pictures from our pupil Simona Miladinova and her trip to Europe.
Our partners from Turkey and Latvia also made presentation – brochure about their countries. On the page brochure you can see the newest presentation.
You can download the latest version of the broschure here:
Macedonia,Romania,Turkey,Latvia
All teams working on this project have decided to make together a brochure with the most beautifull places of their countries.
For everybody to know how we are progressing I’ve published what we have done so far. For any updates you will be notified. You can see it on this link.
On one day every July, St. Peter’s Day, locals and tourists alike are invited to attend the traditional Macedonian wedding celebrations at Galicnik, a legendary old village in the western mountains near Mavrovo. Read the rest of this entry »
Little history
According to an old legend, a Macedonian girl named Dojrana was accustomed to fetching water from special springs that had to be sealed following use. Yet at the very moment Dojrana was filling her jugs, she heard that her beloved had come back from the army, and forgot to seal the springs. Lake Dojran was, the legend says, the result of her unthinking euphoria. Read the rest of this entry »
Our children went to Krusevo. In order to introduce you to the ciry we wrote a short history of the town.
Krusevo (native: Крушево) is a small but picturesque town. It resembles a magic painting by an old master. Situated at an altitude of 1350m, Krusevo is the highest town in the Balkans. The chance guest will not be wrong if they style Krusevo as a museum of old architecture. The town is full of old and more recent houses built in the style of old Macedonian architecture. Krushevo proudly preserves the memory of the renowned Ilinden Uprising of the Macedonian people on 2nd August, 1903. In the surrounding’s there is also an artificial lake, and Krusevo continues to be a well known centre and a climatic health resort.
Mentioned in documents from the 15th century, Krusevo is a living museum, famous for its traditional architecture, cultural sites, and legacy as the site of the great 1903 Ilinden uprising against Ottoman domination. The rebellion failed, but its memory is cherished in Macedonia even today, as a symbol of the national struggle for freedom and democracy; while it lasted only 10 days, the Krusevo Republic of revolutionary leader Nikola Karev represented a desire for self-rule under a modern European political system. One of the most important points in the Ilinden uprising was the declaration of the “Manifesto of Kruševo”. It called for all the people of Macedonia regardless of their nationality and religion to fight together against the Ottoman Empire and live peacefully in a free country of Macedonia. In the early 20th century, Kruševo was a small town with a mixed population of 4,950 Bulgarians, 4,000 Vlachs (Aromanians) and 400 Christian Albanians, according to Bulgarian geographer Vasil Kanchov’s statistics. In 2002, Kruševo still retained a sizable Aromanian minority judging by census data: it was populated by 4,273 Macedonians, 1,020 Vlachs, 26 Serbs and 11 others.
There is in the area a monument called Mečkin Kamen (Bear’s Stone). This was the place where Pitu Guli’s band (cheta) was trying to defend the town of Kruševo from the Turkish troops coming from Bitola. The whole band and their leader (voivode) perished and Kruševo as well as many of the nearby villages were set to fire by the Ottomans.Today an enormous monument on the hill above Krusevo marks the elusive dream of the Ilinden revolutionaries.
Owing to its high elevation (1300 meters or 4,400 feet), Krusevo is also one of Macedonia’s prime winter sports destinations. Yet this same quality also makes this pine-forested getaway a comfortable destination in summer, when the Krusevo air stays cooler and more pure than in the arid lowlands.
The memory of Macedonian artist, Nikola Martinoski, is preserved in a traditional-style house/gallery that contains a huge collection of Martinoski’s paintings and drawings, as well as various ethnological artifacts that bring 19th century Macedonia to life.
Krusevo was,as well,the hometown of Macedonian most famous pop-singer Tose Proeski (1981-2007).
The “Ethno-Town Project”
There is a project called “Kruševo ethno-town”, supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia, developed by few enthusiasts. According to that project, Kruševo shall look like a town from the beginning of the 20th century, while it was the center of the Macedonian Ilinden Uprising in 1903, leading to the creation of the first Republic on the Balkans, The Krusevo Republic. People will be dressed like Ottoman Turks and Macedonian revolutionary freedom fighters. The project wants to make Kruševo a main tourist destination in five years.
The children had lovely time here which can be seen from the photos. They mostly wanted so visit the eternal home of our killed pop star Tose Proeski.Enjoy.
Our children visited the zoo and planetarium in our capital Skopje. We don’t have photopraphs from the planetarium but we have from the zoo. Here they are.
