The Guardian writes about Albania: Calla Festival, as in Paradise (Photo)

The story in question is Will Coldwell's from The Guardian.

How seriously the Minister of Tourism took the first international event in the country at the time we landed on the ship in Saranda to find a police escort waiting to accompany us to the mountainous country. This and the arrival of Prime Minister Edi Rama the next day, which held a local conference with organisers at our hotel.

“Albania has always been beautiful,” he said, talking to a pool behind it. But people think of it as a place to be robbed or killed... but this stigma has helped us. When someone visits us and gets out of here alive, they realize it's like paradise! It's like a forbidden apple: don't bite it or you'll love it all the time. ”

What about the castle? I have to admit, I don't know anything about the festival, but, basically, it's fantastic,” he said, conveys Periscopi.

Albania is not on the list of most visited countries in Europe. There come some 800,000 visitors from Great Britain, a very small number compared to neighbouring Greece, where about 3 million annually go to Croatia, or about 765 thousand. But that can change.

Calaya ovica a week-long festival held in June at the Data Resort can cement Albania's reputation as a fantastic place with amazing beaches and as a place of entertainment. At the moment, the Data is a little awkward to find: You must fly to Corfu and then four more hours of ferry and bus. However, with the new airport expected to open in Vlora [some 50 km of The Determination] in 2020, access to this country is expected to improve dramatically.

For Callana, only 2,000 tickets were free, so there was plenty of room on the beach, clean water, cheap restaurants, and so on.

The festival featured mostly electronic music. The people who created the Festival of the Castle ? Mainstage Travel are the same who created the great winter festival, Snowboxx. It's already the third year. “We have been looking for in Portugal, Croatia, Kital, Spain, Malta and Morocco but we couldn't find anything like that --” told me Alan Crofton, director of the festival. In October of last year, we visited Determine for the first time and immediately saw the potential. ”

Most of the people I talked to said the same thing. The best thing was that we're just in a place we haven't been before,” said Rebecca, 27, from London. /Periscopi