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Berat Castle

Berat, Albania

About Berat Castle

A living Byzantine castle — a 13th-century hilltop fortress that is still inhabited today, with Orthodox churches, Byzantine frescoes, an ethnographic museum, and permanent residents going about their daily lives among 600-year-old stone walls. The most atmospheric inhabited castle in the Balkans.

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Why it works for solo travelers

✓ Comfortable to visit on your own.
✓ Budget-friendly ($).

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Mangalem Quarter

The City of a Thousand Windows — the lower Muslim quarter of Berat, where Ottoman houses stacked up a steep hillside have rows of large windows giving the city its nickname. The narrow lanes between whitewashed houses, the ancient mosques, and the views across the Osum River to the Gorica Christian quarter are extraordinary.

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