Alexander the Great, encircled by warriors and a fountain that’s at the centre of nightly light shows.If there’s one thing Skopje is famous for it is statues – they are everywhere – and they have inadvertently become a tourist attraction in themselves.This is what the Macedonian government wanted when they set out their plan to build all these statues, for more people to visit the city, but perhaps not in quite the disparaging way they do. While travelling around the Balkans and Eastern Europe, as soon as you mention you’re going to Skopje, almost immediately someone will say “ahhh, the city of statues!”