Private Berat city tour and wine tasting

Excperience: This magnificant 2400 year old city, the pride of Albanian Architecture is under the protection of Unesco. This city forms a wonderful combination of eastern and western cultures, costumes, traditions and outlook. Berat is treasure-trove of Albanian history,culture and a testament of the country’s tradition of religious harmony.

The city’s life began in the 6th-5th century B.C. as an Illyrian settlement. Later, in the 3rd century B.C., it was turned into a castle city known as Antipatrea. Uniquely today, residents still live inside of the castle walls. The three major neighborhoods of the old city are Mangalemi, Gorica, and Kala, where the castle itself is located. In Mangalemi, below the castle, you can see the famous view of the facades of the houses, with windows that seem to stand above each other. With its houses built along the steep hill, the view of Mangalemi is the reason that another name for Berat is the City of the Floating Windows.

Across the Osum River lies the Gorica neighborhood, whose houses face those of Mangalemi. The arched bridge of Gorica, built in 1780, is a beautiful architectural monument constructed to link Gorica with Mangalemi.

Its rugged mountain setting is particularly evocative when the clouds swirl around the tops of the minarets or break up to show the icy peak of Mt Tomorri.The old stone houses accompanying loyaly each other for centuries,stand up prowdly and don’t show their age on their snow-white facades.

Not suitable for:
-People with mobility impairments