TIRANA, March 8 /ATA/ – Prime Minister Edi Rama is inspecting a series of ongoing development and infrastructure projects in Berat during a visit to the museum city on Friday.
The government head underlined that several decent projects are underway as part of the city’s urban transformation drive, including rehabilitation of the city’s main square and the pedestrian street, the parking lot, the buildings’ exterior and the local green market.
According to Rama, the transformation projects will help not only the local economy, but will also attract an ever growing number of tourists to the museum city that saw a record-breaking number of over 80,000 visitors last year.
“Visiting the revived Berat, where a series of important projects are underway in the city, starting with the main square and the big public parking lot, new pedestrian streets, requalification of the residential buildings, green market with 120 stands for farmers to sell their locally grown fresh produce, as well as other indispensable projects, not only for local residents, but also for tourists, whose number is constantly surging in this UNESCO world heritage site, with a record-breaking figure of over 80,000 visitors in 2023,” PM Rama said.
The green market is one of the projects, being build in an area of 13,000 square meters near the national road and designed as a open structure to host both wholesale and retail market for local agricultural products. The market is designed to provide space for over 120 vendors and is expected to collect locally grown produce from 35 villages.
The Premier also inspected the city’s main square, currently being reconstructed, along with the buildings’ facades, the public parking space and the pedestrian street, totally transforming the centre of Berat.
“We are now at Berat’s main square, actually sitting above the underground parking space that you have already inspected firsthand. The parking lot offers space for over 2000 vehicles. The design about transformation of the buildings’ exterior has already completed, delivering on the total transformation of the city’s centre,” Berat Mayor Ervin Demo said.
Mayor Demo noted that agritourism sector is constantly growing in Berat, noting that more than 35 guesthouses have been built and are already operational in the city’s historic district alone.
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