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8-10 hours
Daily Tour
Unlimited
English
Excperience: This magnificant 2400 year old city, the pride of Albanian Architecture is under the protection of Unesco. This city forms a wonderful combination of eastern and western cultures, costumes, traditions and outlook. Berat is treasure-trove of Albanian history,culture and a testament of the country’s tradition of religious harmony.
The city’s life began in the 6th-5th century B.C. as an Illyrian settlement. Later, in the 3rd century B.C., it was turned into a castle city known as Antipatrea. Uniquely today, residents still live inside of the castle walls. The three major neighborhoods of the old city are Mangalemi, Gorica, and Kala, where the castle itself is located. In Mangalemi, below the castle, you can see the famous view of the facades of the houses, with windows that seem to stand above each other. With its houses built along the steep hill, the view of Mangalemi is the reason that another name for Berat is the City of the Floating Windows.
Across the Osum River lies the Gorica neighborhood, whose houses face those of Mangalemi. The arched bridge of Gorica, built in 1780, is a beautiful architectural monument constructed to link Gorica with Mangalemi.
Its rugged mountain setting is particularly evocative when the clouds swirl around the tops of the minarets or break up to show the icy peak of Mt Tomorri.The old stone houses accompanying loyaly each other for centuries,stand up prowdly and don’t show their age on their snow-white facades.
Not suitable for:
-People with mobility impairments
| # | Discount group | From adult | To adult | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Discount for Adults | o | 1 | €0,00 |
| 2 | Discount for Adults | 2 | 3 | €45,00 |
| 3 | Discount for Adults | 3 | 4 | €70,00 |
| 4 | Discount for Adults | 4 | 50 | €80,00 |
| # | Discount group | From children | To children | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Discount for Childs | 0 | 1 | €0,00 |
| 2 | Discount for Childs | 2 | 3 | €22,50 |
| 3 | Discount for Childs | 3 | 4 | €35,00 |
| 4 | Discount for Childs | 4 | 50 | €40,00 |
Depart for Berat at 9:00 am and you will be transferred to this beautiful city for around 2 hours.
First we will start the tour with the castle area,and we will be piercing through old stones houses on a nice walk in cobbled path,until we reach “Onufri” iconographic museum. The Cathedral of Shën Mëria houses a museum of works by the famous iconographers of the 16th century: Onufri, and his son, Nikolla. There are over 100 icons on display.We will continue walking in the narrow cabbled paths,and do a quick stop for a coffee in one of the old houses and interact with locals.We will continue our walk with beautiful sightseeing and old churches and mosques accompanying us.We will reach the view point,where you can see clearly the two other neighbothoods Mangalem and Gorica from the top vie,the beautiful Osumi river piercing through and the high mighty mountains.
After the fortess we will go on the old Mangalem neighborhood, until we reach the old plaza of the city. We will continue our walk by the river towards the Gorica bridge,and have an amazing view of Gorica neighborhood. This will be the end of the city tour and there will be an optional lunch in a restaurant with traditional cuisine.
Afterwards we will drive to “Cobo” winery,one of the best winerys in Albania and you have a wine tasting of their finest wines with appetizers. After the wine tour, we will start heading back to Tirana.
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