Plocha Michov Grad, Bay of the Bones

Plocha Michov Grad is a prehistoric settlement on the water near Gradiste beach in Ohrid. There are restored houses 5 meters from the bottom of the sunny waters of Lake Ohrid. This is only a small part of what existed here around 1200 BC.

Plocha Michov Grad

 In ancient times, this settlement had 60 houses and was connected to the shore by the use of a movable bridge. A site where the underwater archaeological explorations brought out stone tools, ceramics and bones of animals and deer horns. The settlement was reconstructed in 2008. Wooden houses above the level of water and a museum with the salvaged artifacts. As a tourist you can walk around in the different houses and see how it maybe was back then.

Ohrid was enriched with another cultural and historical landmark as well as with a tourist attraction - Museum on Water. Which is an exceptional archaeological complex, which is one of a kind in the region.

On the southern coast of Gradiste Peninsula in the Bay of Bones, a settlement has been erected, which in the past; was spreading at a total surface of 8.500 m2.

Artifacts found under water.

 It is an authentic reconstruction of a part of the settlement, dating back between 1200 and 700 BC.

A Roman military fortification (Gradiste) has been reconstructed on the hill above the Bay of Bones simultaneously with constructing the settlement and the Water Museum.

The walls of the fortification that once had protected the Roman Empire from its enemies, are once again lifted up on the hill near Gradiste.


The Roman fortress is connected with the settlement in order for tourists and visitors to have an extraordinary opportunity to experience time travel, from prehistoric to ancient times and vice versa.