Almost two millenia ago, the Romans created a little settlement on the banks of the Vardar river and started long centuries of history of what is now considered as one of the most exotic European capitals. Large Paris-like marble buildings dominating the riverside, hundreds of statues of famous people of the Macedonian past, old bazaar with its Ottoman style mosque, orthodox churches and quantity of socialist brutalist megastructures - all of that squeezed in a very compact area commemorating all of the past rulers of the land, Romans, Byzantines, Ottomans and Soviets - welcome to Skopje, the capital of Macedonia.
