Gjirokastërc Audioguided Walking Tour 1h and 21 reviews

e Çerçiz Topulli square, where you can buy your ticket to visit the Cold War tunnel and join a guided tour.

You will find yourself in Çerçiz Topulli Square, one of the busiest places in Gjirokastër.

The name literally means “the Bazaar Pass”, a key passage located just under the castle walls and in the center of the old town classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

On your right stands Xhamia e Teqes, the “Teqe Mosque”.

an ancient cinema that tells a recent but very telling part of the city’s history.

You are in front of the Angonate House, one of the most emblematic historic homes in Gjirokastër and the largest old residential complex still visible in the city.

Discover Gjirokastër, a major historic town in southern Albania, perched above the Drino Valley, near the Greek border.

ought as a model of the traditional architecture of Gjirokastër of the 19th century, with its stone walls on the ground floor, wooden floors, small windows and roof covered with stone plates.

writer, born here in Gjirokastër in 1936, in the historic district of Palorto.

Vasil Laboviti, Chirurg-Gynaekolog"

In Gjirokastër, you will often come across monuments called lapidarë. The word stone refers to stone memorials in Albania

th its newer neighborhoods that extend into the plain at the foot of the historic city.

But if you wish, you can take a short detour of a few meters in Jonuz Cuçi street in front of you, to discover the remains of the Ish-hammam of Gjirokastër.

In Gjirokastër, cooking is an integral part of the local identity and reflects a long family tradition passed down from generation to generation.

judicial institution for southern Albania.

veal themselves here: they will take you directly to the next monument, the Obelisku i Arsimit, the Obelisk of Education.