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Mosaics of Lin are located 22 km from Pogradec and near the Peninsula of Lin. They date back to the sixth century AD. Lin, the Byzantine mosaic from the 6th-7th century is the biggest mosaic in the Balkans with an area of 220 square meters. The museum of Lin mosaic with its rather modest size, is one of the most visited attractions on the shores of Lake Ohrid. On the walls and on the floor of the basilica are depicted biblical scenes, flowers, animals and much more. In the center of the hilltop there is an ancient cistern, in addition to the church ruins and the mosaic. The cistern is about three meters deep and it was used to catch and store water during both Roman and Byzantine periods. On the hilltop there is also a communist army detachment complex looked that was from here that the communist army “made sentinel to see whether there was a military attack from Tito’s Yugoslavia”.   

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