Berat, the second most beautiful on the list of 30 cities around the world

In our articles we have constantly informed you of the most beautiful cities in the world that you should visit at least once in your life, but unlike other suggestions this time you have to return the compass from our beautiful Albania, more precisely Berat .

The Japan Tourism Agency “JATA” has published the list of the most beautiful cities in the world, where in the second place is the city of Berat, which has been included in this classification for the architectural and cultural values ​​it possesses. By describing Berat, JATA writes: “Mangalemi, the old city of Berat, lies on the shores of Osumi and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the Middle Ages it was a border town of the Byzantine Empire, a fact that is proved by the fortress of the city. ”

Homes built one above the other, which no painter could put in so beautiful, gave the name to Berat: “One City on One Window”. The streets of these neighborhoods are paved with cobblestones, where stone-crafted craftsmen have left their inheritance to the younger generations. The walls of the houses are built with sculpted stones where they glitter from the whiteness of lime. The clean air of the surrounding pines, their permanent greenery, hills covered with fig trees and olive trees, beautiful and ancient mosques in the center of the city, among which the most famous are the Mosque King (1512) The Lead Mosque (1555) , Mosque of Singles (1827), and Celebi Hysen Pasha’s Mosque (grandson of Kara Mahmud Pasha) in the Murat Celepias neighborhood, are evidence that Beratas citizens like all other citizens of Albania live in harmony with each other regardless of religion.

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