Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Struga Online

The world's largest poetry festival is held every year in Struga, Macedonia, on the shores of Lake Ohrid, the deepest, and, many believe, oldest lake in Europe. (More on the festival, and the "Golden Wreath Award," which in 1986 was won by Allen Ginsburg, here.)

This I learned at Struga Online:

Our site was born as a result of an initiative among a few young people from Struga who thought that this beautiful place deserves a home on the Internet. Since then the idea behind struga.org has not changed. Everything that is presented here is done by our team solely from love and passion for our pretty little town.


It's a nice, simple site. They have hand-drawn maps, photos of old Struga, Struga writer biographies, Struga history:

The first Neolithic settlement, which is assumed to have been a fishing area, was built on the place where the river Crn Drim flows out of the Lake Ohrid. It is a pile dweller, an ancient fisherman community.


You can learn a lot about Struga, at Struga Online.


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