TIRANA, January 24/ATA/ The “Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu” museum in Kruja has attracted local and foreign visitors during January.
Director of Kruja Historical and Ethnographic Museum Mehdi Hafizi told ATA today that, “From January 1 until today, 2130 visitors have visited the museum, 500 of whom are foreigners”.
“At the beginning of the current year, the city of Kruja has had the first organized groups of tourists, who come mainly from China, but there are also Italian, Spanish and Maltese tourists,” said Hafizi.
Hafizi added that, “During last year “Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu” museum in Kruja has recorded an increase of 65% more visitors last year compared to 2022. From January to December 2023, the museum had 110,162 visitors, where 50% were foreign visitors, 30% local and 20% students.
In the first days of January, 15 tour operators from China, part of a FAM Trip, organized by Landways International organized visits to the museum. The representatives of Chinese companies expressed an interest and optimism for the increase in the number of tourists from this country to the Balkans and Albania.
In the “Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu” museum, there are exhibited many original objects, documents and bibliographies, authentic reproductions that speak clearly about the history of the Albanian people in the XV century. /k.s/p.s./
