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Tearce

Tearce is a village located 12 km to the northeast of Tetovo, in northwestern North Macedonia, about 15 kilometres from the border with Kosovo.

Tearce
Tearce · Mitko Spiroski
The place

Tearce is a village located 12 km to the northeast of Tetovo, in northwestern North Macedonia, about 15 kilometres from the border with Kosovo. It is a seat of the Tearce municipality. Population 3,974 (2002). The B-405 road connects it to Tetovo.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Lešok Monastery

    The most significant Christian spiritual site in the Tetovo area is this monastery established in 1321.

  2. 02
    Church of Saint John the Baptist

    Located in Otušište, which historically was a separate village but is now a part of Tearce village, is this tiny 13th-century church.

  3. 03
    Dobrošte Lakes

    Two of the Šar Mountain's 27 glacial lakes are the Upper and Lower Dobrošte lakes, above the village of the same name.

  4. 04
    Church of the Virgin Mary

    This church was built in 1872 atop foundations of an older church.

  5. 05
    Church of Saint Petka

    This church was built in 1567, though it didn't begin to carry the name St Petka until its first renovation in 1641.

  6. 06
    Oraško Kale

    Located about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the Vardar River and standing 110 m (361 ft) above it, is this set of ruins which date from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages.

From Wikivoyage: Tearce, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Tetovo Folk Fest

    Held every August on the holiday of the Dormition of the Holy Mother of God at Lešok Monastery is this festival which brings out the best Macedonian folk musicians.

From Wikivoyage: Tearce, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Restaurant Gryka

From Wikivoyage: Tearce, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Tearce

Airports
Skopje (SKP), 48 km · Priština Adem Jashari (PRN), 51 km · Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle (OHD), 108 km
  • Ilinden → Tearce
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · $6–8
  • Ohrid → Tearce
    109 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · $11–16
  • Prishtina → Tearce
    67 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · $8–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tearce

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tearce. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    301 km
  2. 02
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    337 km
  3. 03
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    337 km
  4. 04
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    348 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    392 km

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Around it

Next door to Tearce

Tearce is 32 km from Skopje, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.