2025
SKËNDULI HOUSE
Rruga Sokaku i te Mareve, Gjirokastra
Mansion to visit
4.7/5
(7 reviews)
This beautiful fortified house is the best preserved in Gjirokastra. Guided tour by the owners' ...Read more
2025
CITADEL OF GJIROKASTRA
Rruga Evlia Celebi, Gjirokastra
Military monuments
3.7/5
(9 reviews)
Erected on a rocky spur overlooking Gjirokastra, this fortress is the largest in Albania. It ...Read more
2025
COLD WAR MUSEUM
Sheshi Çerçiz Topulli, Gjirokastra
Specialized museum
3/5
(1 review)
Museum dedicated to the Communist dictatorship in former underground shelters built to house ...Read more
2025
ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM OF GJIROKASTRA
Rruga Hysen Hoxha 3, Gjirokastra
Museums
2.3/5
(3 reviews)
On the site of Enver Hoxha's birthplace. Reconstructions of rooms from traditional Gjirokastra ...Read more
2025
MUSÉE DE L'ARMEMENT
Kalaja e Gjirokastrës, Gjirokastra
Specialized museum
In the citadel's underground passages. Mainly devoted to partisan fighting during the Second ...Read more
2025
ZEKATE HOUSE
Rruga Mazllëm Shazivari, Gjirokastra
Mansion to visit
This large, four-storey building is Gjirokastra's most beautiful tower-house. Guided tour by ...Read more
2025
CATHÉDRALE DE LA RÉSURRECTION-DU-CHRIST
SH4, Gjirokastra
Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels
A strange Orthodox cathedral designed by a New York architectural firm and completed in 2012. ...Read more
2025
HOUSE OF ISMAIL KADARE
Rruga Fato Berberi 16, Gjirokastra
Places associated with famous people to visit
Birthplace of the great Franco-Albanian writer. Almost entirely rebuilt in 2016, it still lacks ...Read more
2025
PLACE ÇERÇIZ-TOPULLI
Sheshi Çerçiz Topulli, Gjirokastra
Street square and neighborhood to visit
Now a pedestrian square, it marks the entrance to the Unesco World Heritage Old Town. ...Read more
2025
OFFICE DU TOURISME DE GJIROKASTRA
Sheshi Çerçiz Topulli, Gjirokastra
Tourist office
One of the most active in the country. Information, guided tours, isopolyphonic singing ...Read more
2025
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF ANTIGONIA
Asim Zeneli, Gjirokastra
Archaeological site
Ancient town of Antigonia founded in 295 BC by Pyrrhus I. Greek, Roman and Byzantine remains. ...Read more
2025
OBÉLISQUE DE L'ÉDUCATION
Rruga e Zejtareve, Gjirokastra
Columns and statues to see
Monument erected on a hill overlooking the bazaar district to commemorate the opening of the ...Read more
2025
BAZAAR MOSQUE
Rruga Ismail Kadare, Gjirokastra
Mosque to visit
The city's only ancient mosque, spared by the atheist campaign of 1967. The lower part once ...Read more
2025
ALI-PACHA BRIDGE
Rruga Hito Lekdush, Gjirokastra
Works of art to see
Very beautiful. This is actually a section of an old aqueduct built in 1812-1813. A 3 km walk ...Read more
2025
CHURCH OF THE SAINT-SAUVEUR
Rruga Doktor Kalivopulli, Gjirokastra
Museums
Former Orthodox cathedral erected in 1784 with a nave, three apses and an adjoining 18 m-high ...Read more
2025
FICO HOUSE
Rruga Fato Berberi, Gjirokastra
Mansion to visit
House belonging to the Fico family, distinguished by its magnificent yellow facade and ...Read more
2025
COL DU BAZAR
Qafa e Pazarit, Gjirokastra
Street square and neighborhood to visit
This "pass" (Qafa e Pazarit) is a crossroads that forms the center of the old town, at the top ...Read more