Struga

Struga is a small town with 20 000 inhabitants. It is situated on the Southwest part of Macedonia, on the one of the oldest lakes in the world, lake Ohrid.Struga is situated 20km from the Albanian border and 43km from the Greece border.

 Struga is located on the banks of the Crn Drim(Black Drim) river. The river is the third largest river in Macedonia. It comes out form The Lake Ohrid, goes through Macedonia and flows in Adriatic Sea, in Albania. 

Struga is multi – ethnic town where together lives Macedonias, Albanians, Turks, Romas, Vlahs, Macedonian muslim etc and also is multi religious town, a town of 3 religions. 


Official languages are Macedonian and Albanian ( according to the Macedonian constitution every ethnic group that has more than 20% of the population can use as official their mother tongue).



Struga is also known as the Town of Poetry because every year many poets are coming on a cultural event called the Struga Poetry Evenings. This town is of great cultural richness with many ancient monuments such as churches 10th – 16th century, mousques from 15th centry, Old Macedonian architecture, antique Christian basilica and so on.


 
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