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Struga

Struga is a city in Western North Macedonia on Lake Ohrid. Nicknamed the "City of Poetry and World's Poetry City", it is known for its annual international poetry festival. Wikivoyage

Population 15,009 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

Emergency numbers in North Macedonia

Visas and entry What your passport needs for North Macedonia

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Vodici

    January

    The Christian holiday of Epiphany (Vodici in Macedonian) is celebrated among Orthodox Christians by leaping into a lake, river, or other body of water to retrieve a cross thrown by a priest - in the middle of January.

  2. Struga Poetry Evenings

    August

    Struga Poetry Evenings (SPE) (Macedonian: Струшки вечери на поезијата, СВП; Albanian: Mbrëmjet e Poezisë në Strugë, MPS) is an international poetry festival held annually in Struga, North Macedonia.

    Official site Wikipedia

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Struga); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Eating nearby

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Somewhere to run

Getting around

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