Ohrid is a city on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia It has about 42,000 inhabitants, making it the seventh largest city in the country. The city is the seat ofOhrid Municipality Ohrid is notable for having once had 365 churches, one for each day of the year, and is referred to as the Macedonian Jerusalem The city is rich in picturesque houses and monuments, and tourism is predominant. It is located southwest of Skopje, west of Resen and Bitola and east of Elbasan and Albania

Geography

Ohrid is located in the south-western part of Macedonia, on the banks of Lake Ohrid, at an elevation of 690 meters above sea level.

The stretch of the lake shore from Ohrid to the monastery of Sv. Naum, which occupies the south-eastern portion of Lake Ohrid (30 km), is an endless, magnificent beach, where most of the hotels with their broad ranging offers are positioned, to provide you an unparalleled stay

Along this belt you will see a number of villages where women still wear traditional folk clothes, villages whose population still lives on fishing in the the old traditional fashion. Within the junction of the modern and the traditional, you will able to taste, among other local specialties, the well-known and unique flavored Ohrid trout, which only inhabits the clean waters of Lake Ohrid, since the time of its creation.

Due to its universal natural beauties and cultural values, the city of Ohrid, together with Lake Ohrid, the eastern shore of which belongs to Galicica National Park, were placed in 1980 on UNESCO’s World Heritage list.