Berat hotels

Being more than 2400 year old the town of Berat is one of the most attractive towns in Albania in terms of architecture, culture and history. Established in the 3rd century B.C by an Illyrian tribe of central Albania with a protective castle, it was known as the fortified city of Antipatrea. In 1417 the town was occupied by the Turks who build quite a few mosques in the area below the town’s old castle. Berat is situated at the foot of Tomorri Mountain and on the shores of River Osum. Built almost all, in white on a slope of green with the river at its feet, it offers a striking view as soon as it becomes visible.
It is famous for its white-washed houses with their many windows which, seem to have been build on top of each other, that give it the nickname “town of a thousand windows”. Because of these the town retains a unique style of architecture, with narrow and stone paved streets. The castle is the only one in Albania and perhaps one of the few in the World that still has houses and inhabitants within its walls, going about their daily life in exactly the same place their predecessors did centuries ago. Within the castle one can visit a few Byzantine churches build as early as the 13th century A.D. Berat offers a mixture of Christian and Islamic religious architectural monuments including several churches and mosques of interesting architecture. Furthermore its characteristic houses, the ethnographic museum, and the “Onufri Museum” with beautiful frescoes from this Albanian painter of the 16th century give Berat the deserved title: “Museum City. This is the "must visit" Albanian town for any foreign visitor.
Must visit places in Berat: The Onufri Museum, the Ethnographic Museum, the Citadel and its churches, the Mosque of Bachelors, the King’s Mosque one of the oldest in Albania and the Mangalemi district.

Tomorri Hotel
Qender,
Berat

Rates from 28 Euro*