TIRANA, October 24/ATA/- In the month of Franciscan pater Gjergj Fishta’s birthday anniversary, the Municipality of Lezha together with all the residents and guesthouses of Fishta village have opened their doors to welcome everyone with the phrase: “Welcome, God has brought you.”
“Fishta Poetry Trail” is a magical journey through the words of Pater Gjergj Fishta, where the entire village of Fishta opens the doors of its houses and guesthouses to welcome friends, visitors and lovers of poetry and traditional gastronomy.
Prime Minister Edi Rama has published in the social media today a video message from the local residents of the village of Fishta, from where, the month of Pater Gjergj Fishta’s birthday anniversary gets transformed into a poetic journey among tradition, verses and Albanian hospitality.
The trail starts near the house where Pater Gjergj Fishta lived, at the memorial, guesthouses, farms, restaurants and even the houses of Fishta people. During this itinerary, you can read hundreds of verses of the Albanian Homer.
Throughout the path, you will be accompanied by the hospitality of the residents and inns offering traditional local products, and this poetic and spiritual journey continues along the beauties of the village.
The Franciscan pater, poet, translator and writer Gjergj Fishta is one of the authentic and direct successors of the National Renaissance, an exponent of patriotic and democratic ideals in the conditions created in the twentieth century, and this is also visibly expressed in the ways of reflecting life in his creativity, as a natural continuation of the literary technique of the Renaissance, where romanticism, realism and classicism prevail.
The great writer who left the Albanians the magnificent work “The highland lute”, was born on October 23, 1871, in the village of Fishtë in Zadrima.
Gjergj Fishta was the first Albanian writer, nominated for the ‘Nobel’ prize, a prose writer, poet, translator; “Militant of Albanian literature” – as appreciated by great port Lasgush Poradeci and “National poet of Albanians” by outstanding linguist Eqrem Çabej.
The various combinations of mythology with reality, the severity of the style, the powerful philosophical thought, the dramatic nature of the work have led Fishta to be compared in this field with Goethe and Dante. /p.s./
