The stone city of Gjirokastra, a UNESCO site from 2005, is one of the most visited destinations in Albania. Here you can find traces of the descendants of the Kaon tribe, from the III AD and the various Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman invaders.
The list of the ‘Must attractions in Gjirokastra’ is huge and diverse. Objects such as the castle from the VI-XII centuries, the 500 houses of the Ottoman period in the XVII century, declared cultural monuments, the old Bazaar of Qafë e Pazarit (XVIII century) are the main attractions included in all tours in Gjirokastro.
Not far from the city other tourist attractions around Gjirokastra complete the requests of the most exigent tourists about nature or religious tours, archaeological tours, historical, gastronomy, food tours, etc. Here we can mention the archeological centers of Antigone, Paleokastra, historical settlements such as; Mashkullora, Libohova, a series of cult objects such as mosques, tekkes, monasteries, etc. in the surrounding villages as well as sites with natural values such as Sotira, the cave of Skotinise, the karst spring of Viroi, etc.
