The arcade
Stone and brick.
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The Skopje Aqueduct is the only aqueduct in North Macedonia and one of the three largest and best preserved in the former Yugoslavia. It stands in open ground in Vizbegovo, about 2 kilometres north-west of the city centre: a line of 55 stone and brick arches running for about 386 metres, the surviving part of a channel that once brought water from a spring on the slopes of Skopska Crna Gora, some 9 kilometres away. No one is sure when it was built. One theory dates it to the 1st century, to supply the Roman city of Scupi; another to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I; a third to the 16th century, when the Ottoman city's many public baths needed water. It stayed in use until the 18th century. Restoration work began in 2021, with a first phase finished in 2023 and a second following, so parts may be fenced off. The site is free to visit and easiest to reach by taxi, and the arches look finest in the low light of early morning or evening.
Stone and brick.
Roman or Ottoman?
Over open fields.
Vizbegovo, about 2 km north-west of central Skopje
It stands in Vizbegovo, about 2 km north-west of the city centre, and is easiest to reach by taxi.