The picturesque village of Lazaropole

     On a plateau at Mount Bistra, surrounded by beech and oak forest, at 1,350 m altitude, is situated one of the highest settlements in Macedonia, the village of Lazaropole, the second largest in the region of Mijach. There are about 400 houses in the village. The older ones reveal the traces of the Mijach highland building style. The village was the birthplace of numerous Macedonian authors, educators, carvers, teachers, fresco and icon painters, and constructors. Especially picturesque are the village church of St. Giorgi, built in 1838, and the small churches in the forests near the village.

    A visit to Lazaropole will adorn the soul with an unusual peace and calmness, will fill the eyes with the view from Sokolica of the summits of Krchin, Korab, and Stogovo. It will make you sense the odours of the mountain flowers of Koritnik and it will clean your lungs with the unpolluted crisp air of Bistra. It is wonderful to visit Lazaropole in June, when the whole area is filled with the narcissuses' odours, or in September, when the entire forest is bathed with the rainbow colours of yellow, brown, reddish, green, pink... Or in winter, wit the icicles glittering from the village's roofs.