Gjirokaster

Gjirokaster is another UNESCO world heritage site. Again it is a town of Ottoman houses around an earlier castle, like Berat, but they look quite different as the houses all have thick grey stone roof tiles instead of red clay, so it looks more sombre. We traipsed up to the castle which is not particularly interesting as most of the current buildings are 17/18th century. It houses a lot of old military equipment and a nice little archaeological museum. One amusing item on display is a T33 US Air Force jet the Albanians claim was a spy plane and the US says landed with permission for repair. Whatever, the Albanians released the pilots but kept the plane.Read more