<x0) Five Reasons to Visit Prizren

That's how Italian journalist and popular traveler Francesca Masotti, published in her blog “, begins writing. Francesca on the top World”.

In particular, Prizren, considered by Kosovars as the country's cultural capital, with Ottoman houses, ancient mosques and paved roads. It can be visited as a daily trip by Pristina, as it is about an hour from each other.

Every summer in August, Prizren hosts DokuFest, a festival dedicated to Kosovo's best documentaries and the Balkans, is a good opportunity to come here.

Following five reasons why, in my opinion, it is worth going to discover this city before everyone becomes aware of its beauty.

Losing in the Shattwan district

The Fountain neighbourhood is the city's most important (and historic tourist) area. It attracts you with the presence of numerous well - preserved Ottoman - colored houses. The advice is to lose in its narrow streets and admire religious buildings that are located one after another. Prizren is, in fact, one of the most multicultural cities in the Balkans: official languages here are three (Albanian, Serbian and Turkish) and despite the number of mosques that is apparently high, the city also has beautiful Orthodox houses and a Catholic church.

Visiting Sinan Pasha Mosque

The most important religious building in Prizren is undoubtedly the Sinan Pasha mosque. It's an imposing mosque, located at the entrance of the Fountain Circle. It can be visited, and inside it you can photograph (which may seem normal, but it is not because at the Serbian Orthodox Church of San Giorgio in Prizren they did not allow me to photograph from outside either). I recommend that once you get to the glass, you raise your head up because the decorations on both the outside and the inner dome are just wonderful.

Walking across the Lumbard River and reaching Turkish baths

Prizren lies along the Lumbardi River, which divides the city into two parts. The river is cut off by several bridges, including the Stone Bridge, rebuilt according to original parameters, after it collapsed after a flood in the late years of HINA. On the other side of Prizren's historic centre, you can admire two buildings located along Adem Jashari Street -- a minaret without a mosque, something I had never seen before and Turkish baths that are being renovated.

Discover Country History in Prizren Laws

Prizren is the town where Albanian delegates from the Ottoman provinces met in June 1878 to discuss borders and curb the expansionist ambitions of neighbouring countries. During the meetings, the foundations for the future Albanian state to be formed, a few years later, in 1912 in Vlora. Today, in the building that welcomed Prizren's connection, there is an Ethnographic Museum, in whose rooms are exposed to typical Ottoman-era objects and artifacts and paintings that reproduce Prizren League representatives.

Watching the City From Above

Finally, you can't say that you've been to Prizren without admiring him in all his splendor from above. For breath vision, you must reach the fortress, the fortress that dominates the city from above. Since at the top it is impossible not to be hit by the number of minarets showing the landscape - so many. I was fortunate to find myself in view during the moment of the call for afternoon prayer and was not short for magic.