Berat is one of the most beautiful destinations in the mainland of Albania, thanks to the reputation that accompanies it as the “City of Thousands of Windows”.

It is no coincidence that UNESCO has included its traditional section in the list of World Heritage Sites.

On a hilltop, Berat Castle is a huge compound now inhabited by townspeople. Within its walls are Byzantine churches, the Red Mosque and the Onufri National Museum, with Christian icons. East is the Ethnographic Museum, in an 18th-century house, displaying traditional crafts and part of a reconstructed medieval bazaar.

Located in our immediate geographical neighbourhood, Berat is easily accessible from Greece. If you want to go by car, it will take you 8 hours from Athens and 5 hours and 40 minutes if you leave from Thessaloniki. Alternatively, you can travel to Ioannina and then board a bus for Berat or fly to Tirana and search for a connecting bus from there.

With the Osum River crossing it and the Tomor Mountain Pine Forest surrounding it, Berat has a very beautiful continental-type landscape. The gorge of Osum, meanwhile, also offered natural fortifications, allowing the city to be built around it on various levels, due to the feeling of the thousands of windows that leaves an impression on the visitor.

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