Lura, where Muslims and Christians celebrate religious festivals together

The journey to Lauren is difficult. The amortized road left in oblivion for years, doesn't allow you to enjoy the view between the mountains, forcing you to move carefully and high cars.

From Tirana, it takes about four hours to affect one of the most beautiful areas in our country.

Investments have been missing, only Spordically, those who know the area well have returned to make their investments.

Natural values, vegetation has been burned, but religion's wealth through religious harmony has not been undone.

This 1300 ha national park, surrounded by mountains measuring 1700-2000m, is about 300 homes, several villages.

Families who have decided not to abandon their homes despite the isolation that causes a lack of road.

Few know that Loura, in addition, carries religious values.

Lura is the example of a country like Albania, and not only, where the community through faith lives peacefully respecting each and every one's rituals.

In the village mosque where the ritualization of the Muslim family, which makes up the majority of the faith in this area, Catholics and leaders of this community, share in prayer as listeners.

The same is true of Mass and Christmas. In them and on the tables of Christian families, Muslims are invited and participated.

The most beautiful religious exchanges are also through the bonds of crowns; the measures between them.

We talk to Nicholl Vlad, the 83-year-old wise man who leads the Catholic community and manages the area's only church, with Gani Buckin and Lazam Kachin, the old men who have grown up and educated on solid grounds of religious tolerance.

Nicholl Vlad, leader of the Catholic community in Lour: We Catholics respect and respect us very much. The night I had the priest at my house, I invited him to see Muharrem. The priest said that night: You'll drink brandy, me and she won't drink. There's a Mass in the Lour Church, the thunderous part were Muslim, and on that occasion the priest said, "All the people will take off their hats, just look at them no. So much trust and respect they had for each other.

Laszam Kaci, Muslim believer, resident of the area: There is a certain difference: Muslims celebrate it themselves, assist, visit, and wish for the Christian religion without any kind of exclusion or deviation. Even whenever Bayram is forgiven, the ceilings are all invited. Others live within a family, Catholic, and Muslim. Jeff Dochi ate syfur and fasted that day. We've had this rule since.

Gani Buci, believer, resident of the area: There are four tribes that have Catholics, Vlad, Sorre, Reta, Marcola. All these half tribes are Muslims and half Catholics. They're cousins, folks, they're friends, friends. I want to have a coffee with Nicole Vlad every morning.

In Lour, it is common when an imam dines with a priest, such as in the homes of these residents where the Queens and the Bayrams are laid.

Nicole Vlad: I gave the last girl myself to the Muslim. My father, who lived for 100 years, did it for trouble rather than for church. They even put an epithet on him.

Gani Butch: George Fish said when he came to Lour: Three things I've seen in Lour, I haven't seen anywhere. 1 - Living in a Catholic and Muslim family. 2 - Lakes that are over 2,000 feet above sea level and full of water. 3 - The old man without a class, very smart.

Laszam Kachi: Islam in a general sense is peace. Islam does not preach war, every one of us has the right orientation in the Koran.

Hysni Buci has been running this community for 12 years as former mayor. He too has stories to confess to this place.

Come in. Lura has a uniqueity compared to the rest of the communities. The Islamic community and the Catholic community have historically and continue to have a religious harmony, which well confirms in all religious events that Muslims and Catholics have. In Lour, a personality called Dodd Preng Reta had its share in the month of Ramadan. He had a certain night inviting both the Muslim hoja and the gamma. The kitchen dishes were also available to the Muslims.

Symbolically, Tirana mufti Ylli Gurra visited the Lura Church from which he conveyed congratulations to Kurban Bajrami.

Star Gurra: It was a noble and grand obligation to provide a wish from the Loura Church for all Muslims and Albanian citizens as a sign of our harmony and our religious and national brotherhood. For all Albanians, cheers for many Kurban Bajram!

Nicole Vlad: We Catholics support the Muslim religion, the harmony we have and always the day of Bajram to find it better, richer and to enjoy it for many years.

Lura is the village of Don Nikoll Kachorrit, Albanian cleric, politician and native politician, signer of Albania's Declaration of Independence and Albania's first Deputy Prime Minister in Ismail Kemal's cabinet.

It is the area of 12 Lakes, there are rich water plants but also such religious and human values that few know, perhaps even a few believe when the world is shaken by crime and terror in the name of faith.