María Alba
Setting of an international poetry festival
Struga is a village and a popular tourist destination in the southwest of the Republic of Macedonia, which is in a valley on Lake Ohrid. The name of the city is Enchalon, the Greek word for eel. The Black Drin starts at the lake and divides the city from Albania to stop where it meets the white Drim (in Kukes) and goes to the Adriatic. It's a lovely and romantic city that gave birth to the most eminent representative of the entire culture of Macedonia during the nineteenth century, the brothers Konstantin and Dimitar Miladinov. The city is known for its international poetry festival which is celebrated
Every year "The Struga poetry evenings" where poems are read from its bridges adding even more romance and they open the festival reading "South Nostalgia" , its most important poem.
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