Town Halls and Public Buildings to visit Bitola

This large cultural center (Центар за Култура/Centar za Kultura) is home to the Manaki Brothers International Film Festival every year in late September or early October. The rest of the year, exhibitions, plays and film screenings take place here. The building was designed by two influential Yugoslav architects, the Slovenian Marko Mušič (b. 1941) and the Macedonian Aleksandar Smilevski (b. 1939), who are also responsible for important buildings in Skopje.

This elegant white villa (Офицерски Дом/Ofitserski Dom) has housed the tourist office since 2022. It was built for the Ottoman governor from 1911 and completed in 1919, when the town had already passed into Serbian control. Used as a military officers' club until the 2000s, it was restored in 2021. The house is surrounded by the Macedonian Phalanx Park, which pays tribute to the troops of Alexander the Great. At the entrance stands the beautiful statue of partisan Stevan Naumov (1920-1942) in the socialist realist style.