Villa Amfora

Over 1,000 years ago, on the shores of Lake Ohrid, monks sat by the water and hand‑wrote one of the most important books in the Slavic world. 📜

The Codex Assemanius – an 11th‑century Glagolitic Gospel book created in the circle of the Ohrid Literary School – is made of 158 illuminated parchment folios in Old Church Slavonic.

In 1736, a Vatican librarian, Giuseppe Simone Assemani, found it in Jerusalem and brought it to Rome, where it still rests safely in the Vatican Library today.

The world discovered the manuscript in Jerusalem.
It was guarded in Rome.

But its story began here on a small lake in Macedonia, in a city that shaped Slavic literacy and faith.

At Villa Amfora, we don’t just offer a stay by the lake.
We invite you into a place where every sunrise touches a thousand years of history.

Have you heard of the Codex Assemanius before?

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