Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra

The Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastr, in the cities of Berat and Gjirokastr, Albania, are an UNESCO World Heritage Site that were inscribed in 2005. Its borders were elongated in 2008.

Berat and Gjirokastra are inscribed as rare examples of an architectural feel typical of the Ottoman era. Located in central Albania, Berat bears witness to the coexistence of various religious and cultural communities all along the centuries. It features a castle, locally known as the Kala, most of which was built in the 13th century, although its origins date easing to the 4th century BC. The citadel place numbers many Byzantine churches, mainly from the 13th century, as adeptly as several mosques built knocked out the Ottoman era which began in 1417. Gjirokastra, in the Drinos river valley in southern Albania, features a series of outstanding two-report houses which were developed in the 17th century. The town moreover retains a bazaar, an 18th-century mosque and two churches of the same grow old.