A walking guide to Bitola, with its landmarks in 3D
Belwalk is a walking guide that runs in your phone’s browser. Bitola, in North Macedonia, is the first city.
It runs in the browser. Add it to your home screen to use it like an app.
What Belwalk does
Landmarks in 3D
17 landmarks rebuilt as 3D models. Walk around each one, open its numbered stories, and read the timeline and sources.
A day planner with breaks
Plan a walk with coffee and lunch stops, estimated prices and real walking routes.
An audio guide that plays when you arrive
Narration in English, Macedonian and Turkish starts when you reach a place.
A passport of stamps
Open every story at a place to earn its stamp.
Start with these
Clock Tower (Saat Kula)
Bitola's 32 m Ottoman-era clock tower, whose bells, given by Germany in 1936, still mark the hour over the town centre.
Heraclea Lyncestis
The ruins of a city founded by Philip II of Macedon, with a Roman theatre and early-Christian basilicas paved with famous mosaics.
Širok Sokak
Bitola's 900 m pedestrian promenade of pastel neoclassical houses and cafés, once lined with foreign consulates.
Old Bazaar
The maze of craft lanes north of the Dragor that once held over 2,000 shops; its east end has the fresh-food market.
Bitola Museum (Atatürk Memorial Room)
The former Ottoman military school (1848) where Atatürk graduated in 1899, now the city museum with his memorial room.
Church of St. Demetrius
Bitola's Orthodox cathedral (1830), plain and half-sunk outside but richly gilded inside, with a carved iconostasis.
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