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Day experience · 8-9 hours · Albania

Visit Shkodra & Kruja from Tirana

Meet your guide in the hotel and drive to Shkodra, the Illyrian capital, in the 3rd century BC. Visit Rozafa Castle with wonderful around.

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What this tour is

Duration
8-9 hours
Country
Albania

Meet your guide in the hotel and drive to Shkodra, the Illyrian capital, in the 3rd century BC. Visit Rozafa Castle with wonderful around.

Continue to town for a visit at the Marubi Photographic Museum with a selection of prints of negatives, illustrating the life of the population of the area in second half of the 19th century. Take a walk in the pedestrian area of Italian and Austrian architecture.

Proceed to Kruja – the centre of Albanian resistance against the Turks under our national hero Scanderbeg who earned the title “Champion of Christ” given by the Pope. Lunch in Kruja Castle.

Afterwards we visit the Skanderbeg Museum, a very rich Ethnographic Museum and the Old Bazaar where handmade souvenirs can be purchased. Return in Tirana.

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  • 8-9 hours out in Albania, guided throughout

  • Walking led by guides who know the ground

  • Viewpoints that are not on the road map

  • Small groups, so the guide can answer you

  • Local guides who live where they are taking you

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