TIRANA, April 9/ATA/-Albania’s monuments of culture are attracting more and more tourists especially on the threshold of the new tourist season.
Berat is one of the most interesting cities that is attracting the foreign tourists, but even drawing the attention of the foreign media organs that carry articles about Berat listed among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Berat Castle is one of the tourist spots that has a growing number of visitors. It is one of the most favourite attractions for the foreign and local tourists.
The Regional Cultural Department of Berat provides statistics confirming increase of the number of visitors during the first three-month period of 2018.
The statistics show promising and very positive figures on the threshold of the tourist season while culture tourism will be the engine of development of the local economy.
Thus, during the period January-March of the current year there were 12.907 visitors, i.e. 3 thousand more visitors as compared to last year when during the same period there were numbered about 9.327 visitors.
Berat Castle is one of the major historical monuments of the Balkans. It is built on a rocky hill on the left bank of the Osum River. It is also referred as the Citadel of Berat and castle quarter and it overlooks the town of Berat. It contains about 14 churches which have added to the fame of the castle.
Some of the Churches, like the Trinity Church, date back to the 13th century. There are interesting frescos in the interior of the churches.
Onufri Iconographic Museum is situated in the castle quarter and carries some of the finest examples of the religious art in Albania. The museum was opened in 1986 and was named after the great painter of the 16th century.
Berat has more than 210 museum objects, 60 of which have been declared monuments of the first category. Hence, Berat is considered one of the cities with the greatest cultural heritage not only in Albania, but even in the region. /a.g/p.s./
