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Berat Castle

Berat · Mangalem · Albania

Berat Castle

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moderate
9/10
best: morning, late afternoon
historic, atmospheric, enchanting
A local would say...

People still live inside this medieval fortress — climb up and knock on a door.

An inhabited hilltop citadel overlooking one of Albania's most beautiful towns, where Ottoman whitewashed houses with a thousand windows cascade down the hillside. The castle has been continuously occupied since Illyrian times and contains Byzantine churches, a mosque, and a working community inside its ancient walls. Berat was designated a museum city by the communist government for its extraordinary Ottoman architecture.

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