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Skopje Aqueduct
Brick arches step across open ground on Skopje’s northern edge.
The story behind the place
Follow the repeating arches and imagine water moving gently above the land. Skopje’s surviving aqueduct combines stone piers with brickwork, carrying a channel along its top. Its date remains debated: accounts connect it with either the Byzantine period or later Ottoman waterworks. That uncertainty is part of its story. The surviving structure offers a close look at the patient engineering needed to bring water towards a growing city.
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- Skopje AqueductNorth Macedonia National Tourism Promotion Agency
