The Old Station

The clock tower on the old railway station reads 5:17. It's been frozen at 5:17am since the morning of July 27th 1963, when this piece of the grand modernist station of Skopje was one of the few parts of the city that remained standing after a massive earthquake crushed the city. It measured 6.1 on the richter scale, killed nearly two thousand people, and left over a hundred thousand homeless after destroying about 80% of the city. It's a moving reminder of a tragic moment in history.