Tirana, Sept 30 /ATA/ Berati Castle alleyway has been transformed from an exhausting route into a panoramic axis.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Edi Rama shared views of this panoramic axis, which will completely change the quality of this important tourist offer for Berat.
“Nice evening from the new alleyway of Berati Castle, transformed from an exhausting path into a panoramic axis as befits that charming destination,” Rama says in the caption below the video.
The project consisted in expansion of road footprint, which entailed works for paving with stone slabs, street lighting; wastewater sewers, reconstruction of the cobblestone obelisk plaza, a parking space for tourists’ vehicles / buses, as well as flower beds along the entire segment.
Berat, the one of a kind city on the UNESCO World Heritage List, built on the banks of the Osum River about 2400 years ago, is one of the main tourist destinations in the country. In 1961 Berat was officially declared a museum city. Today Berat boasts 210 museum objects, of which 150 have survived intact. Of these, 60 are monuments of the first category and others of the second category. Among these values, the most prominent are: The castle, or kalaja (fortress), as it is called by the people of Berat, built on a triangle-shaped rocky hill inside a 1440 m perimeter, with 24 towers and two gates.
The ancient castle standing atop the inhabited hill welcomes thousands of visitors all year around.
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