Private Day Tour UNESCO City of Berat with optional Vineyard Experience, Car & Driver included

Enjoy the freedom to explore in your own time, with a dedicated driver, without timetable pressure.

Summery

Visit the UNESCO city of Berat, a.k.a "City of 1000 windows", Amazing architectures of the Mangalemi and Gorica districts paved with cobblestones, 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 lunch and some of the finest Vineyard Experiences of the region.

Itinerary:

• Explore the city castle that seats on a hilltop looking down to Osumi river and new (communist era buildings) Berat.

• Visit the castle churches with painted walls by one of the most famous ikon painters of the time Onufri.
• Visit a Berat traditional house (Ethnographic museum),
• 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.

• Optional - Vineyard Experience at one the most famous family owned wine making cantinas in Albania. Local white and red wines from indigenous grapes like Shesh and Debine, accompanied with small meze. 

Return to Tirana