EURO CITY BREAK

Skopje is a city of startling contrasts. It is a place where brutalist architecture from the Yugoslav era stands shoulder-to-shoulder with ancient Ottoman mosques and a controversial, neoclassical revamp that has filled the city centre with hundreds of gleaming white statues. The capital of North Macedonia is eccentric, affordable and undeniably fascinating. It is a city split in two by the Vardar River. On one side lies the modern, statue-filled square that feels like a film