TIRANA, April 5/ATA/ During March, there has been a high number of tourists who have visited Rozafa Castle in the Northern city of Shkodra.
Shkodra Regional Directorate of Cultural Heritage said that, “During the period March 1-31, the number of visitors reached 4689 or 959 more visitors than during the same period of 2022”.
According to Regional Directorate of Cultural Heritage, during March 2022 Rozafa castle numbered 3730 local and foreign visitors.
The requalification of the Rozafa castle through lighting, an investment by the Ministry of Culture, has turned it into a tourist attraction, visitable by local and foreign tourists even in the evening.
Rozafa Castle is a historical monument. In the surrounding walls of the castle, which cover about 9 hectares of land, there can be clearly distinguished the constructions of four periods: the Balshaj (XIV century), the Venetian possession (XV century), the Ottoman occupation (XVI-XVII century) and the Bushatllinj (XVIII-XIX centuries). Built during the Illyrian kingdom, it is represented by a legend that carries the keeping of a promise, of the legendary Albanian word of honor./k.s/ /gj.m/p.s. /
