Centar Municipality, in cooperation with the pensioners' association, is hosting an evening tonight called "Nostalgia for the corso - memories of a beautiful time". The evening starts at 19:00 with a symbolic walk through Skopje's historical core - from Macedonia Square past the Ristic Palace, the former Hotel "Makedonija", and the legendary venues Kenan, Vanila and Grombi.

Mayor Goran Gerasimovski is inviting residents to feel "the charm of the old walks through Skopje's centre". He describes the corso as "a place where first crushes and first loves were born" and adds something anyone over forty will understand - "one glance meant more than a thousand phone messages".

The programme moves to the "Dimitar Miladinov" primary school hall for an evening dance - a DJ will play "evergreens" to stir up memories and emotions from old Skopje. The Centar Municipality pensioners' commission has sent invitations to pensioners from other municipalities too. Which means the event aims to be more than a municipal initiative - it wants to be a shared experience for everyone who remembers the Skopje that existed before 1963.

Behind the nostalgia sits a bigger story. Skopje no longer has the venues from an era when people walked the central streets every evening as a daily ritual. Urban transformations, old buildings swapped for new ones, and lifestyle shifts have practically erased the 1960s corso. What Centar Municipality is doing today isn't just entertainment for pensioners - it's a small admission that some version of Skopje was better than the Skopje we have now. And that kind of admission is rare from a political initiative.