Day Trip To Berat with lunch in local family / offered by Tirana Day Trips
Day Trip To Berat with lunch in local family / offered by Tirana Day Trips
This tour is created to Discover Berat which is inarguably one of the most beautiful towns in Albania! Go back to the Ottoman era and find their traces in the King Mosque, the 14th-century Helveti Teke, Mangalem and Gorica. The castle along with its churches and the famous Onufri Museum.
This tour will bring you also to a family inside the castle of Berat where you will taste a dessert Turkish café and raki and eat lunch Visit the castle and walk through its small streets Get lost in Onufri Museum and see the Old Icons madden by a school of Berat Go inside the King Mosque and Helveti Teke and learn more about the tolerance between the religions Stop at the new bridge to click the best pictures of Mangalem known as the part of 1001 windows Be guest in a local family and eat traditional food, learn more about local life and culture Guided Tour History&CultureArchitecture& Heritage Ottoman&Medieval Food&Tradtion - Meet locals Customized tour ( you can customize this tour )
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Berat Castle
Visit Berat Castle Berat Castle, a fortress landmark in the city of Berat, Albania, lies high above the Osum River. The castle dates back 2,500 years and records of its first conquering were accomplished by the Romans in 200 B.C. After many centuries of stone reinforcement, the exterior (perimeter) was enlarged slowly over time, under Byzantine conquerors, in the 5th, 6th, and 13th centuries. Currently, the castle is in restoration due in part to a UNESCO World Heritage Site acknowledgment. (This is a welcome "gift" for the residents of the castle who have been left underserved as the city below has gotten much attention.) Inside Berat castle houses many historical elements. A Mosque, "Red Mosque", which can be identified by its lonely minaret (a staircase inside provides access to the top), more than 20 Christian churches, and a central museum which surrounds one of the largest Orthodox churches with many 16th century paintings, by "Master Onufri", and a decorative alter inside. (Many churches in Albania were destroyed during the Communist years as an "Atheist State" was declared during Enver Hoxha's reign.) Other architectural elements are courtyards, a large cistern in the center, and numerous houses of stone in which the residents of the castle still occupy today; this is an absolute specialty in castle heavy Europe as it's one of the last remaining!
1 hour 30 minutesNational Iconographic Museum Onufri
Visit Onufri Museum From 27 February 1986 Onufri National Museum is located in the inner part of “Saint Mary Church” in Berat Castel. The Cathedral is rebuilt during 1797, and it is the most representative monument of post-Byzantine architecture in Berat town. The Museum is called “Onufri”, in honor of the Albanian painting Headmaster of XVI Century. The museum collection is constituted with 173 objects chosen from a fund of 1500 objects, belonging to the fund of Albanian Churches and Monasteries as well as to Berat, where you can find 106 Icons and 67 Liturgical objects, created from Albanian Iconographical painters during XIV-XX–th Centuries: Onufri, Onufri’s son, Nikola, Cypriot Onufri, David Selenica, Kostandin Shpataraku and Cetirs (Gjergj, Johan, Nikola, Naum and Gjergj junior) and from a lot of anonymous painters.
30 minutesRuins of the Red Mosque
Visit The Red Mosque, by the southern Kala walls, was the first mosque in Berat and dates back to the 15th century.
3 minutesBulevardi Republika
Walkthrough the famous pedestrian street of Berat
10 minutesThe King Mosque
he 16th-century Sultan's Mosque is one of the oldest in Albania. The Helveti teqe (a place of worship for those practicing the Bektashi branch of Islam) behind the mosque has a beautifully carved ceiling and was specially designed with acoustic holes to improve the quality of sound during meetings. The Helvetia, like the Bektashi, are a dervish order, or brotherhood, of Muslim mystics
10 minutesMangalem
isit The Mangalemi quarter, better known as the "City of 1000 Windows", dates back centuries to the Ottoman ruling period and the architectural elements of each home clearly illustrate this. If one was to compare the ancient construction of the Mangalemi quarter to present day, residential architecture, the differences of highly-placed windows to slow intruder advances, stairwells winding particular directions to allow sword strike advantage for the owner, and animal storage areas would be found
10 minutesIncluded
- Lunch - People are living inside the castle and we would like to take you into a local house to taste their Food and deserts and to learn more about the tradition
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- All Fees and Taxes
- Entry/Admission - Berat Castle
- Entry/Admission - National Iconographic Museum Onufri
- Entry/Admission - The King Mosque
Not Included
- Personal expenses
Good to Know
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Infant seats available
- Most travelers can participate
- Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
- Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas
- Gear/equipment sanitized between use
- Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
- Guides required to regularly wash hands
- Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
- This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 travelers
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Tickets & Cancellation
You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start time of the experience.