About Bitola

The wonderful joint of history, geography and tourism is the main reason for TEO-TRAVEL the travel agency was founded at all, at the town that is comfortably settled in the very lap of Baba mountain, down the fertile plain Pelagonia, being in old times the home of the tribe Lynces, at a cross of the Via Egnatia road, the same that links the Doyran and the Aegean coasts with the road from north, that of the Moravian valley.
We like to share with You the beauties and the richness of this charming place and to call You to feel by Yourselves the unique magic.
The birth of the day in this town is announced by the Clock, the Clock-tower, the symbol of the town.
An inevitable attraction for any single visitor represents in special the town of Philip the Second of Macedon, the antique locality of Heraclea Lyncestis. You might pass by a tender step here, through the enchanting mosaics, be actors at the theatre, have a look at the early-christian church. Learn about the Christianity preached by Apostle Paul, with the great merit of the Macedonian girl Lydiya and feel for a hint like a proud descendant of the ancient Macedonians.
Out of the plied past, the entrails of the earth, Bitola opens its treasuries. The one wishing to look at that treasure trunk need not but just to visit the famous Archeological Museum, placed in the building of the ever Turkish Cadet High School, as well known by the fact that it was there where Kemal Ataturk, the father of modern Turkey, studied and whose personality and works are presented by a separate Museum.
You would be fascinated by the data that there were in the town, at the both sides of the river Dragor, not less than seventy monasteries and churches, ruined don to its grounds by the Turks Osmanians.And this is just here like no elsewhere that the Islamic art is conserved the better and treated with a bona fide civility respect.
What can more to embellish a town except when to say that it is a town of the consuls. These are just the atributes that bears Bitola, the one keeping with pride the evidences of cultural tolerance and respect to tradition. As of the architectural heritage, the ensemble of the unique beautiful buildings, You would feel it as well if You would take a walk through ,,Sirok sokak,,, the breath of European Bitola.