TIRANA, February 3/ATA/ Rozafa Castle in the Northern Albanian city of Shkodra attracts visitors even during the winter season recording even a greater number early this year.
Shkodra Regional Directorate of Cultural Heritage said that, “The tourist visits to Rozafa Castle recorded a good figure in this early year 2022, reflecting also a marked increase of domestic and foreign visitors. In January, 2339 visitors went to Rozafa castle or 922 visitors more than in the same period last year.
Rozafa Castle, an attractive place where history, architecture, fantastic landscape are perfectly intertwined, is attracting more and more visitors. During 2021, over 51 thousand domestic and foreign tourists visited this castle.
The improvement of Rozafa castle through lighting, an investment of the Ministry of Culture has turned it into a tourist attraction, visitable by local and foreign tourists even in the evening.
In the surrounding walls of the castle, which include about 9 ha of land, there are distinguished constructions of four periods: Balshajs (XIV century), Venetian domination (XV century), Ottoman occupation (XVI-XVII century), and Bushatlinjs ( XVIII-XIX centuries). Built during the Illyrian kingdom, it is represented by a legend that shows the keeping of the promise, or the legendary word of honor./k.s/j.p/p.s./
