Ohrid Day Tour From Tirana

Highlights:

• Robevi House -Explore one of the historic buildings of Ohrid
• St.Sophia Church –Visit oneof Ohrid’s oldest churches
• Icons Gallery –A showcase of Ohrid’s finest fresco paintings
• Plaošnik –Admire the floor mosaic from the 5thcentury AD

Startthe tourfrom your hotel in Tirana, driving to Ohrid for about 3hourswith a private guide. Once in Ohrid you will start atthe old part of the town and stop at the Lower Gate where you will visitthe Museum of Robevi (the Robevi family).After this visit you will tour the church of St Sophia which dates from the 11th century and then go up to the Roman amphitheater which dates back to the 3rd century BC. Our next stop is the Icon Gallery, which shows a range of some of the most famous and valuable icons in the world right after the ones on Athos and Russia. In the vicinity of the gallery is the church of Sveta Bogorodica Perivleptos (St Clement’s Church of the Holy Mother of God Most Glorious) which dates from the 13th century. After that, carry on walking to Tsar Samoil’s Fortress which was named after the first Tsar of the Macedonian Slavs, who having conquered Byzantium, brought most of Macedonia under his rule. Then walk to Plaošnik, the place where we visit the newly built St Clement’s Monastery Church which is dedicated to St Clement (the patron of Ohrid) and St Pantelejmon. Inside the church you can also see the tomb with St Clement’s relics. Beside the church you can see the foundations of the 5th-century basilica with beautifully preserved mosaic floors and some swastikas also discovered on the floors. From here head towards the Church of St Jovan at Kaneo, which was built at the end of the 13th century, and is one of the most frequently visited churches in Ohrid because of its beautiful location on the cliffs directly above the lake. After this go back to the town on foot. Another option is to return to the town by boat and at the same time to make a tour of the lake providing you with a great view of the town.In the end, we will drive back toyour hotel in Tirana