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ValbyDK Says: I passed through Kruje’s old bazaar on my way to Kruje Castle. It was a charming place with cobbled streets and colourful shops. Mainly souvenir shops where you can buy traditional Albanian costumes, book, musical instruments and different items from the communist days....
ValbyDK Says: Next to the Kruje Castle, you’ll find the National Ethnographic Museum. The museum opened in 1989 and is located in an old urban building from 1764.The building was full of small rooms and each of them told a story about how life was in Albania 100 years ago. OK, how life...
Kruje Castle and Skanderbeg National Museum
ValbyDK Says: When you arrive in Kruje one of the first things you’ll notice is the impressive Kruje Castle. The castle has a long history going back to the 5th and 6th centuries, but became really famous during Skanderbeg’s battle against the Ottoman Turks in the middle of the 15th...
Visit the Skanderbeg Castle Museum
Greatwalk0 Says: When visiting the Skanderbeg Castle it is important to visit the associated museum, located within the walls of the castle. For a nominal entrance fee, visitors can wonder the halls of this interesting building and step back in time through the museums numerous artifacts...
Kruja, craft in the old bazaar
JLBG Says: In the old bazaar, you can find antiques and local craft. Apparently, until now, all craft are locally made and not imported from China like in all touristy places! Let us hope that this will last!The first photo shows vessels made with pine cones arranged in a very clever...
JLBG Says: Actually, the old Bazaar in Kruja is not that old. It has been completely restored around 1960 but, though I have not found any picture of how it looked before the restoration, it seems that it looks like the previous one. It is made of two rows of shops, lined on both sides...
Kruja, a fountain in the castle yard
JLBG Says: A fountain with the head of a goat is flowing gently, imbedded in the wall of the historical museum. I have read that there was a XVth century fountain in the castle yard, but I cannot ascertain that it is this one, except that I have not seen any other !
JLBG Says: I have described in my hotel tip how to arrive to “Hotel, bar, restaurant, piceri Belvedere”. Once in the restaurant, we arrived in a large room rather noisy that seemed to be a place for quick snacks. A waiter showed us that we should take the staircase on the left and go...
restaurant panorama: food from heaven
call_me_rhia Says: There it was... a large-ish building on two floors, half of it hosting this restaurant. It doesn't look very special at all, except for the balcony overlooking the bazaar - but we found it promising, in particular because it was the only restaurant we found that did nto...
infinity-syndrome Says: From Tirana to Kruje and back you can get by bus. Near Tirana's train station there is a dusty square with many buses - so this is NOT the depatrure place for buses to Kruje. Near this square there is a bazar entitled Market Shkoder. You need to go through the whole market...
Take a furgon to the mountains
call_me_rhia Says: Kruje is about 45 minutes or 1 hour away from Tirana and it's very easy to reach by minibus (furgon). The cost is about 150 lek per person (basically peanuts) and furgons leave as sson as they are full. Ask a taxi driver to take you where the furgons leave from and don't...
JLBG Says: The photo was also taken at Restaurant Belvedere and shows “Qofte me garniture” (Fried Meatballs). Ground meat is added with chopped onions, parsley, chopped feta cheese, bread crumbs. It is formed either as meatballs and seasoned with salt, pepper, mint and oregano. It is...
JLBG Says: The photo, taken at Restaurant Belvedere, shows “tru viçi me garniture”, a dish made with grilled slices of veal brain, served with fried potatoes and full garniture (tomatoes, onions, cucumber, olives, beans, xhaxhik). It was excellent and we paid 550 lek
JLBG Says: The photo, taken at Restaurant Belvedere, shows Tave Dheu, a dish very popular in central Albania. It is a very tasty dish made with chopped liver baked in a sauce made with lamb cheese (almost the same as Greek feta), eggs and yogurt. It was excellent and we paid 200 lek.
JLBG Says: The old lady on the left does not really wear true traditional clothing but this is the casual wear of middle-aged women in the villages. The traditional clothing for celebrations, special in each part of the country is more fancy. It can be seen only on the occasions of...
JLBG Says: In all my travels, I try to find unusual “school warning” road signs. In Kruja, I was lucky to find this old looking sign with extra slim pupils running to school. That must have been hand drawn by a local artist and I suppose it is unique, as I have not seen any other in...
Kruja, bear at restaurant Belvedere
JLBG Says: I have described in my hotel tip how to arrive to “Hotel, bar, restaurant, piceri Belvedere”. Once in the restaurant, we arrived in a large room rather noisy that seemed to be a place for quick snacks. A waiter showed us that we should take the staircase on the left and go...
call_me_rhia Says: The Dollma teqe, a Bektashi temple built in 1789. The Bektashi were a Muslim branch founded in Anatolia in the 13th century by Haxhi Bektash Veli. Their wiew of religion was somewhat different than other branches of Islam. First of all they did not choose as cult places...
The Skanderbeg Museum and the Kruja Castle
Eraldi Says: Kruja is a small town located 32 km northwest from Tirana the capital. It has a castle and a museum which features the ancient wars and history of Albania under Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu and his glorious victories againts the Ottomans in the 1400s. For a quarter of a...
The Skanderbeg Museum and the Kruja Castle
Eraldi Says: Kruja is a small town located 32 km northwest from Tirana the capital. It has a castle and a museum which features the ancient wars and history of Albania under Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu and his glorious victories againts the Ottomans in the 1400s. For a quarter of a...
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Kruja is a town of 20,000 inhabitants, 32 km from Tirane. It stands on the slopes of the Mali Skanderbeut range (Skanderbeut mountain) which culminates at Mali I Liqenit (1724 m) (Lakes mountain). The...
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Kruja, a city nested on a steep mountain side, stands high as a balcony over Adriatic shores. The background of the city is closely linked with our National Hero Gjergj Kastrioti Scanderbeg as is main...
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The citadel of Kruj' became the scene of one of Europe's most titanic struggles. In May 1450 the Ottoman Sultan Murad II set out from Constantinople with a hundred thousand men to crush once and for...
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