And in case your festival proclivities are of a fierier nature, the annual Celebration of Light (late July-early August) illuminates the city skies for its 20th year in 2010, with four countries vying for the best display of fireworks set to music.
Still, Mr Gligorov's government was understandably twitchy when Abdul-Rahman Ariti, leader of Macedonia's middle-of-the-road ethnic-Albanian party, which is part of the ruling coalition, recently accompanied Arben Dzaferi, the head of the country's much fierier Albanian nationalist party, on a trip to Albania's capital, Tirana.