The Robevi house, on the slope between the harbour and the old town, is the most ornate of Ohrid's surviving 19th-century Ottoman-era merchant houses. The Robevi family were wealthy traders with networks reaching to Trieste and Vienna; the house was built in the 1860s by master builders from Debar and combines Balkan vernacular with imported Italianate decoration.
The interior is now the city's history museum, with rooms preserved as they were in the late Ottoman period — carved wooden ceilings, painted walls, original furniture. The upper-floor reception room with its bay window over the lane is particularly fine. Small admission fee, often open later than the town's churches in summer.