International Travel News Highlights Jewish Heritage Trip to the Balkans
The January 2016 issue of ITN (International Travel News) included a description of our Jewish heritage tour of Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Greece (Salonica). The magazine listed the following trip highlights: the Sofia synagogue, the Alexander Nevski cathedral, the Rila monastery, the Dimitar Peshev museum in Kyustendil, the 11th-century Bachkovo monastery, the Skopje Holocaust Memorial Center, the Bet Yaakov synagogue in Skopje, the 15th-century Jewish cemetery in Bitola (Monastir), the Royal Tombs of Vergina (where Philip the II of Macedon was buried), and the Jewish museum in Thessaloniki.
Find out more about our annual Jewish heritage trip to Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Greece: https://sephardicbalkans.com/