Berat Travel Guide

Berat is known as `the city of a thousand windows’ (because its houses have a lot of windows), is about 122 km from Tirana and is one of Albania’s bastions of the Christian faith. This city is literally full of churches, among the more important ones being the Church of the Holy Trinity, the Orthodox Cathedral of Our Lady, and The Church of The Evangelists. A quaint seven-arched stone bridge approaches the Christian Quarter, Gorica, and most of the churches of the town are within the 14th century citadel overlooking the town. Not that Berat has nothing but churches; there are also some lovely old mosques in the town, including the Bachelor’s Mosque, the Leaden Mosque, and the King’s Mosque.