On this page you can find a collection of free city tours of Skopje, Ohrid, Bitola and other places.
Free Skopje City Walk
The Skopje City walk and Ohrid City Walk were published in 2013 by two Dutch women, Linda Poort and Sanne van den Heuvel. At the time, they lived in Skopje with their Macedonian partners. Their self-guided City Walks could be downloaded for just a few euros. In 2025 Linda and Sanne stopped with the distribution of the City Walks though their website WalkingMacedonia.com and allowed MyMacedoniaBlog to make them available for free! Click the link below to preview or download the PDF of the Skopje City Walk.
Free Ohrid City Walk
The Skopje and Ohrid City Walks allow you to enjoy the most visited cities of Macedonia at your own pace. Click the link below to preview or download the PDF of the Ohrid City Walk.
Free Skopje Architecture tour
An alternative free walking tour in Skopje takes you along the many brutalist and modernist style buildings in Skopje. After the devastating earthquake of 1963, a lot of new buildings were erected in modernist and brutalist style. The Skopje Modernist and Brutalist Architecture Walking Tour consists of two parts, part one of 7-9 km and part two of about 3 km and together they take you along many of these remarkable buildings. The tour is designed to be used in combination with a GPS, or for instance the Wikiloc app on your mobile phone.
Free Ohrid City Tour by GPS
This 7 km GPS-guided City Tour of Ohrid takes you along the most interesting sights of Ohrid. There is a lot of overlap with the Ohrid City Walk PDF above, so you can combine the ease of using GPS with all the information in the PDF.
Ohrid tour around the city wall
This free 4 km GPS-guided Tour around the Old City Wall of Ohrid has the Old City Wall of Ohrid as a theme. It is not the usual tour of Ohrid that most first-timers do, although there is some overlap with the Ohrid City Tours above.
Free Bitola Sightseeing tour
This 7 km GPS-guided Free Sightseeing Tour in Bitola takes you along some sights in the outskirts of Bitola: Abandoned Yugoslavian F-86 fighter jets, several bunkers, the Dzepane Fortress, the Heraclea Waterfall, the famous archeological site Heraclea Lyncestis and the Bitola Zoo.
Free Smilevo village Tour
Smilevo is a village about 40 minutes by car from Bitola and 50 minutes from Krushevo. It is a historically significant village, because the decision for the Ilinden Uprising against the Ottoman occupiers was taken at the Congress of Smilevo in May 1903. The uprising took place a few months later on 2 August 1903. This 3 km GPS-guided walk through Smilevo takes you along the sights in Smilevo.
Free Hiking trails in Macedonia
Are the Free City Walks not challenging enough for you? Have a look at all the hiking trails in the Macedonian mountains that we have done!
If you prefer to explore more cities, see here for more Places to See in Macedonia.
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