Day Trip To Berat ,Explore Berat ,UNESCO Heritage with Tirana Day Trips
Day Trip To Berat ,Explore Berat ,UNESCO Heritage with Tirana Day Trips
Discover Berat which is inarguably one of the most beautiful towns in Albania! Berat weaves its own very special magic and is easily 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 'town of a thousand windows'.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.Walkthrough the castle and visit the famous Onufri Museum Learn about the tolerance between the religions meanwhile you visit King Mosque and Helveti Teke See the ottoman architecture and learn more about the historySee the part of 1001 windows and take the best picture of the Old Bridge Guided Tour History&Culture Ottoman&MedievalArchitecture&Heritage Customized tour ( you can customize this tour )
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Berat Castle
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 minutesMangalem
Visit 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 minutesBulevardi Republika
Walkthrough the famous pedestrian street of Berat
National Iconographic Museum Onufri
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 minutesThe King Mosque
The 16th-century Sultan's Mosque is one of the oldest in Albania. The Helveti teqe (a place of worship for those practising the Bektashi branch of Islam) behind the mosque has a beautiful carved ceiling and was specially designed with acoustic holes to improve the quality of sound during meetings. The Helveti, like the Bektashi, are a dervish order, or brotherhood, of Muslim mystics.
20 minutesIncluded
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- All Fees and Taxes
- Tour Guide
- Entry/Admission - Berat Castle
- Entry/Admission - National Iconographic Museum Onufri
- Entry/Admission - The King Mosque
Not Included
- Lunch
- Personal expenses
Good to Know
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Infant seats available
- Most travelers can participate
- 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
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