TIRANA, March 23 /ATA/ – Albania is abundantly rich in stunning natural beauties, breathtaking mountainous landscape, rugged coastline and pristine waters, increasingly making headlines in leading international guides and prestigious travel magazines across the world.
In addition, cultural tourism, with countless museums, castles and other historical and cultural heritage sites all over Albania, is also attracting an ever growing number of both local and foreign visitors.
Via a video posted on Twitter, the Minister of Culture Mirela Kumbaro announced the visitor numbers in the country’s various museums and castles through the first two months of 2018.
Data from the Ministry of Culture showed that visitor numbers in the country’s historical and cultural sites rose 91 percent year on year in first two months of 2018.
Museums remain the most preferred tourist destination, different from a year ago when visitors chose to explore archaeological parks.
As many as 14 154 tourists visited museums during the period from January through February 2018, up from 5 960 during the same period of the previous year.
The number of visitors to the country’s old castles went up too compared to the same period of past year, registering 7 122 visitors from 4 581 in Jan-Feb 2017.
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