St Nicholas Monastery

This monastery used to be much larger. During the communist age all the other buildings were destroyed and only parts of the main church was saved from destruction

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Albania part II - the south and the west

September 30th 2010
Sheep, cows and a ship where they don't belong In the previous blog we made on Albania we wrote about our visit to Berati. We there wrote that "Berati has a picturesque old town and on a hill towering over the town there is a fortress." The first city we are going to write about here in this blog entry, Gjirokaster, can be described with exactly the same words: Gjirokaster has a pictur ... read more

Europe » Albania » South

Between 1990 and 1992 Albania ended 46 years of xenophobic Communist rule and established a multiparty democracy. The transition has proven difficult as successive governments have tried to deal with high unemployment, widespread corruption, a dilapi... ... read more

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