The municipality of Veles is located in the center of the Macedonian state on the railway and road transfer zone - the overland, natural route from central to southern Europe and the Mediterranean. With its 49,000 inhabitants, of which 75% are Macedonians, 5.5% Albanians and 3.7% Bosnians, Veles is a typical Balkan city urbanistically, architecturally and culturally, which is going through a permanent transformation of its socio-economic structure, surpassing the consequences of post-war explosive industrialization.
