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Sveti Nikole is located in the center of the
Ovče Pole
valley, located on 80 km from the capital
Skopje and from the nearby city
Štip, is just 25 away, while from
Veles is 33 km and from
Kumanovo is 44 km away.
The Ovče Pole valley is renowned by the sheep-raising, production of sheep
products and tasteful cuisine with specialties based on sheep and lamb meet.
The folk tales say that the town was named after the church of St, Nicholas
that was built by the king Milutin in the year 1313. The region of Sveti
Nikole is rich in findings of anthropogeneous nature. They speak and witness
about a sequence of cultural layers that were accumulating throughout the
history. Especially important is the archeological site Barutnica in the
vicinity of the village of Amzibegovo.
In the almost deserted Sveti Nikole
village of Burilovci there is a small medieval single-nave church Sveti
Nikola (St. Nicholas), important for its fresco-painting that enchants with
its beauty and speaks about the mastery of art of its anonymous painter.
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