Guided Tour, UNESCO City of Berat with optional Wine Tasting

Visiting: Berat UNESCO City, Mangalemi District, Berat Castle, and optional wine tasting at Cobo Cantina.

Visit the UNESCO city of Berat, or as we like to call it, "City of 1000 windows", Amazing architectures of the Mangalemi and Gorica districts paved with cobble stones, and houses that start narrow at the bottom and wide on top, surrounded by multiple windows. Above the city on a hilltop Berat Castle is a spectacular monument of history and culture where local residents still live inside. After the visits you'll have the option to stimulate your taste buds with a traditional slow cooked lunch and visit one of the most famous Vineyards in Albania.

Itinerary:
1
Explore the city castle that seats on a hilltop looking down to Osumi river and new (communist era buildings) Berat. The castle is more tan 2400 years old, renovated many times over the centuries. Inside the fortified castle walls is the neighborhood of Kala "Castle" where people have lived uninterruptedly for millennia's.  
2
Visit the castle churches with painted walls by one of the most famous ikon painters of the time Onufri. Onufri ikons museum, St. Marry's Byzantine era church converted to a museum, with a fully functional church integrated in it. 
3
Visit a Berat traditional house (Ethnographic museum). A 19th centurym, typical Berat Family house, converted to a museum. Family houses were large buildings were three generations lived together (grandparents, parents, and children. 
4
Visit the old Islamic Center,  Bachelors mosque where youth used to hand out, the newly restored Kings mosque where the elite would reside and the Helvetis Teche. Wit the occupation of Albania from the Ottomans, the Islamic religion became the new main stream religion.

5 *Optional Vineyard Experience
Çobo Cantina. ferments indigenous grapes like Shesh and Debine, and serves its variants accompanied with small meze. 

Berat, is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008, It has a unique style of architecture with influences from several civilizations that have managed to coexist for centuries throughout the history. Berat comprises an old fortified city filled with churches and mosques painted with grandiose wealth of visible murals and frescos.