Ohrid · North Macedonia

Saint Naum Monastery

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easy

10/10

best: morning

serene, spiritual, beautiful

A local would say...

Put your ear to the saint's tomb in this lakeside monastery — they say you can still hear his heartbeat.

A magnificent monastery complex on Lake Ohrid's southern shore near the Albanian border, where peacocks patrol the grounds above the lake's springs and the 17th-century church of Sveti Naum rises on a wooded hill. The saint himself is buried in a chapel inside, and it is said you can hear his heartbeat if you place your ear on his tomb. In summer, boat trips depart to visit the bubbling underwater springs that feed one of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes.