Must-SeeBerat
About 53 miles away
Albania's city of a thousand windows, a white Ottoman town on a hillside.
Full Guide
Church of St. Mary Peribleptos
A late 13th-century church whose frescoes show some of the first signed work of medieval painters, with an icon gallery.
- Open
- Closed Mondays
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 30 minutes
- Address
- Ulica Ilindenska, 6000 OhridDirections
- Getting There
- In the upper old town, near the Upper Gate.
Why Go
The painters Michael and Eutychios signed their frescoes here in 1295, among the earliest known signatures in Byzantine art. The gallery beside the church shows Ohrid's collection of icons.
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