The Ruins of Isar and Vardarski Rid

Just outside the village of Marvinci, we found the ruins of Isar, a settlement dating from the seventh century BC. Later on the same day, we would visit the Vardarski Rid: a set of ruins on a hill overlooking Gevgelija. A museum in Gevgelija displays archaeological finds from both sites, providing information it would have been nice to have before visiting them.

For better or worse, Macedonia is the kind of country in which it’s totally possible to encounter archaeological sites in the middle...