3 minutes agoGjirokastra, Albania's undiscovered mystery
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Should a British tourist see Gjirokastra's faults, its steep roads, its lack of night life and other concerns, or its history, its revulsion and ferocity. These dilemmas have answered an article from the British daily “The Independent”. Gjirokastra, stone city of [...]
Gjirokastra, the stone city of museum houses, is the treasure of Albania, of amazing landscapes, autokton cuisine, of hotels at extremely low prices.
This message is hidden between the alliance and the contradictions of the British daily “The Independent”.
In a cynical style, author Holly Beckster points to the negligible flaws she has encountered in the historic mountain city, but she does not stop stressing that behind all small areas, there is a nature and culture behind which her countrymen should not lose.
“Who would like to spend a few weeks of long-awaited holidays in a mountainous town in Albania, which is a palm of the southern coast of Saranda, where no one speaks English but where hotels are free and beautiful, where morning menus are multiple, where valleys are rare and the mountains below, where hotel staff members offer you their company for an hour and a half to the future destination because you are guests, during a stop in the Caltery of the hidden oak trees, that looks as bright as waters seem. Who would want these? You better not go to Gjirokastra. ”
The centuries - old Gjirokastra with its typical Ottoman architecture is preserved by 2005 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization as a rare world heritage city.
