The city taken over by statues

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Central Skopje is an unusual place. It looks like Vegas on steroids. The concentration of statues and lamp posts per square foot is insane. I guess only the mansions of Russian nouveaux riches could compete with central Skopje. Wherever you look there will be probably at least ten statues in your field of vision. There will often be more statues than people around you. Humans definitely are a minority in central Skopje. Most of the statues look old but they are only slightly over ten years old I think. I could not shake the feeling that I was inside The Venetian Casino in Macau. Skopje, we cannot see you behind the statues!

The city still has a couple of very nice old parts though. Skopje deserves a longer separate post.

In Skopje, Macedonia

Comments

[apel.livejournal.com]

How strange! Do y know the story behind the plethora of statues and gaudy lamp posts?

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

It's a fabulous picture - any idea why the obsession with statues?

[annapandawoo.livejournal.com]

It looks beautiful. :)
I would love to go visit sometime.