BALKAN -ALBANIA
TIRANA
Tirana is a
charming and intriguing city. It has unique monuments and history and is a
melting port of cultures dating way beyond the Ottoman times through the
Italian occupation and a long lasting totalitarian regime.
BERAT
(UNESCO)
Berat
weaves its own very special magic and can easily be a highlight of visiting
Albania. Its most striking feature is the collection of white Ottoman houses
climbing up the hill to its castle; earning it the title of the “town of a
thousand windows” and helping it join Gjirokastra in the list of UNESCO World
Heritage Sites in 2008.
GJIROKASTRA
(UNESCO)
Defined by
its castle, roads, paved with chunky limestone and shale, imposing, slate,
roofed houses and views of the Drina Valley, Gjirokastra is a magical hillside
town described beautifully by Albania’s most famous author, islmail Kadare (
born in 1936) , in Chronicle in Stone.
