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Struga & the Black Drim
Where the river leaves
The lakeside town where the Black Drim leaves Lake Ohrid, home of an August poetry festival.
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About Struga & the Black Drim
Some 15 km west of Ohrid, Struga is where the Black Drim leaves Lake Ohrid, its banks lined by a pleasant riverside promenade that is made for an evening stroll. The town has a proud literary tradition: the Struga Poetry Evenings began here in 1961, when Macedonian writers gathered to mark a jubilee of the Miladinov brothers’ collection, and by 1966 it had become an international festival. Its Golden Wreath honours a living poet’s lifetime of work. Come in late summer to catch the readings, then take a table by the water.
Our take
- Riverside promenade
- Struga Poetry Evenings
- 15 km from Ohrid
- Address
- Struga, the Balkans
- Our city guide
- On our Skopje guide
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