About Ohrid

The Ohrid saga is a millennium long saga. Within the very heart of the present city of Ohrid , the antique city of Lichnid lies, significant and rich, as is its successor. The metamorphoses of the antique Lichnid into medieval Ohrid lasted for several centuries (VI-IX), thus being created one of the most significant medieval cities on the Balkan. Through the pages of the Ohrid saga we will find the memories of the birth of the Slavic literacy and culture in the works of St. Clement and St. Naum, students of Thessaloniki brothers Sts. Cyril and Metodij. St. Clement is worshiped as a patron of the city, and his three-decade work in the city (886-916) initiated the foundation of the Clement Slavic University.

The Ohrid saga cherries the memories of the Samuel Empire as its capitol at the beginning of the XI century. It nourishes the testimonies of the Ohrid Archibishopry - a significant church organization, which pedestal was shared by influential philosophers, writers and theologians. Its worthy successor is the present Macedonian Orthodox Church. The Ohrid saga was composed by the stormy pages of the past, and the testimonies for some of them have reached the present days; the Monastery of St. Clement - St. Pantelejmon, the Monastery of St. Naum, the cathedral church of St. Sophia, the church of St. Clement, the church of St. John the Baptist, as many other pieces of art: frescoes, icons, manuscripts, all of them woven in the City of UNESCO - Ohrid.