Maybe they overdid it with the city square, but they are enjoying it and more is being added. In a couple of years they should be done with it, including triumphal arch, which was just unveiled to celebrate their victory in international court to at long last be legally permitted to call their country Macedonia. Read the reasons below...

Looking deeper into what might be the political problems between the Greeks and the Macedonians, this is what I just learned from the Magazine, The Economisti: Greece, far from being satisfied with having the treasures of Macedonia's past inside of their borders, even begrudge Macedonia its name. The article I refer to pointed out that Macedonia may now officially keep their 1000s of years old name (whch they have had since before they even conquered and owned Greece). Greek politicians have fought that, for fear that Macedonia then will claim the northern parts of Greece, that they once owned which had, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WW1, been given to Greece. Moreover, for many years, Greek politicians had been fighting to keep tiny Macedonia out of the UN and NATO, and had blocked Macedonia's access to the EU. What a great trade-off for the EU that one was. Maybe now, finally, that the name issue has been resolved in international courts, Macedonia can go forward and join the rest of Europe.