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Širok Sokak
The evening stroll
Bitola’s graceful pedestrian street of 19th-century façades and busy café terraces.
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About Širok Sokak
“If you have been to Bitola and not strolled down Širok Sokak, it is as if you have seen nothing,” goes the local saying. Running from the main square to the city park, this street was where the city’s public life always gathered, and its builders blended European styles with local tradition in a row of elegant 19th-century houses once home to merchants and consuls. Artists, poets and singers have praised it for generations. Come in the evening, when the café terraces fill, then wander on to the old bazaar, which once counted more than 2,000 shops, and the 33-metre clock tower.
Our take
- Neoclassical façades
- Café terraces
- Evening promenade
- Address
- Bitola, the Balkans
- Our city guide
- On our Skopje guide
Opening hours, prices and seasonal openings change, so please check with Širok Sokak before you go.
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