The House of Rena
This museum of culture and tradition exhibits handmade treasures, original costumes, embroidery and woven fabrics from the region.
This museum of culture and tradition exhibits handmade treasures, original costumes, embroidery and woven fabrics from the region.
The museum was the result of the collection of folklore, traditional, historical and photographic material of the region. It ensures the promotion of the traditional heritage through its displayed items: agricultural tools, lumberjack tools, carpentry tools, weaving tools, livestock objects, traditional costumes, traditional household items, old weapons and old coins.
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Its exhibits refer to the pre-industrial period and the 20th century. The displayed items are household utensils, traditional household items, traditional costumes, household furniture and woven textiles.
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Today the two-storeyed old house serves as a museum space and cultural center. The current exhibition of the pre-industrial period is entitled “Wool, flax, loom and sewing machine”. Visitors today can see the winter “ontas” as it was at the end of the 19the century, while the formal “ontas” is today used for temporary museum
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Its permanent collection “Thesprotian Land” covers the period from the Middle Paleolithic (100.000 BC) until the period of the Ottoman rule (19th cent. AD), through selected finds and additional informative material that allow the visitor to follow the most important stopovers in the history of Thesprotia. Special interest is focused on the Hellenistic period, a
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According to the Albanian Orthodox Church data, this monastery dates since 1600, and it is one of the 24 monasteries situated in the valley of Drinos until 1911. The church of this monastery is the best representative example of the post-Byzantine churches in Albania and a very rare one due to the western influences in
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The 5 centuries-old sycamore tree of Libohova (Rrapi i Libohoves) has been proclaimed a Monument of Nature of the 1st Category. With a great location at the very center of Libohova town square, at an elevation of 414 meters above sea level, reaching a height of 32 m, a diameter of 3 m, and a
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The fortress is situated near the village of Kardhiq in Gjirokastër district. There is not a final verdict about the date of the construction. Obviously, historians consider it diachronic, and some believe that its construction stretched between the 12th C and 14th C. Others judge that the most likely time of its construction is the
The Castle of Paleokastër is situated near the village of Paleokastër in the district of Gjirokastra, south of Albania. It belonged to the late antiquity period and was built by the emperor Constantine the Great (272-337 AD) around 311-314 AD as a Roman fort being probably one of the few Roman military installations Balkans. The
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