Magnolia Square

{{Short description|Square in Bitola, North Macedonia}}

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|image_caption =Magnolia Square with the Philip II Statue

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|location= Jorgo Osmano,

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Magnolia Square ({{langx|mk|Плоштад Магнолија|translit=Ploštad Magnolija}}) is a public space and a town square of the City of Bitola, located near the Clock Tower.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dYdTEZWn8sEC&dq=magnolia+square+bitola&pg=PA221 |title=Identitäten und Imaginationen der Bevölkerung in Grenzräumen |page=221 |publisher=LIT Verlag |isbn=9783643107572 |year=2011 }}

Around the square are old houses from the Macedonian and Ottoman architecture that are purchased from various companies, firms and coffee bars. Bitola, which was a major cultural center[http://popara.mk/2011/patuvanja/vikend/bitola/] The history of Bitola (MKD) in the Ottoman Empire has very interesting buildings from the Turks from which many on Main Street and Magnolia Square.{{clarify|date=July 2012}} Also there is an art gallery "Magaza" and the newly built "Glass Building".

Bitola in cooperation with the Government of Macedonia made the monument The Founder of Heraclea Statue{{cite web |url=http://www.time.mk/read/ac7e45af38/ca7329d67c/index.html |title=TIME.mk - страница за вести |accessdate=2011-10-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120914131106/http://www.time.mk/read/ac7e45af38/ca7329d67c/index.html |archivedate=2012-09-14 }} Statue of Philip II of Macedonia in Bitola's city square (MKD) that is 8.5m high and around it a fountain with the Vergina Sun on it, and benches for sitting and resting.