Gjirokastra, in the Drinos river valley in southern Albania, features a series of outstanding two-story houses which were developed in the 17th century. The town also retains a bazaar, an 18th-century mosque and two churches of the same period. Gjirokastra is an imposing fortress in whose perimeter original fortified urban housing has developed, built by the main landowners of the surrounding area. It is made up of fortified houses constructed on the principle of tall buildings, or towers, which defy the classical rules of architecture and town planning. It is the image of a powerful military and administrative centre, at the apogee of the classical Ottoman period. Gjirokastra bears very certain and exceptionally well preserved testimony to the Balkan fortress-town of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Unesco: Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra
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Date: June 6
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