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Bashtovë Fortress

Bashtovë Fortress "Albanian:Kalaja e Bashtovës" is a post close to the town of Vilë-Ballaj, today an authoritative piece of Gosë, district of Rrogozhinë, west-focal Albania. It is geologically arranged close to the correct banks of Shkumbin River. History specialist Gjerak Karaiskaj has dated the working amid the fifteenth century, as developed by the Republic of Venice. However Alain Ducellier has stated that the Venetians have worked over a current previous structure which goes back to the sixth century, when the region was under the Byzantine Empire, amid the Justinian line. Previously, the Boshtovë district was referred to as an exchange harbor and as an inside for the fare of grains. The stronghold has a rectangular shape, 60 by 90 meters (200 by 300 ft). The western piece of the fortification was remade in the eighteenth century. Its dividers are 9 meters (30 ft) high.

Scanderbeg's Lost Tomb

Skanderbeg was covered in St. Nicholas Church, Lezha: "Gjergj Kastrioti was covered in the town of Lezha, in the colossal church of Saint Kollit. His internment function, as indicated by the custom of the in the first place, wound up plainly remarkable splendor. His body was slick with every one of the warriors and with disaster, as per the traditions of the land, by every one of the sovereigns and skippers. After his demise in 1468 in Lezha by characteristic causes ?! His fighters ended up plainly Turkish protection for a long time. In 1480, Albania was unquestionably possessed by the Turkish Empire. This revelation goes great as per what the most punctual archeological investigations have said that there was an early church under the Skanderbeg Memorial, which was initially redesigned in the twelfth century and was revamped again in the fourteenth century on which it was covered the saint of the country, Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg and after the Turkish attack came back to t...

The Mesit Bridge

The Mesit Bridge , found 8 km from the city of Shkodra on the Kir River , is a landmark of extraordinary esteem and image of old human progress. Worked in 1768 by Mehmet Pasha Bushati , the edge on the Kir River served to associate Drishti with Shkodra. Being a landmark of awesome building and specialized esteem, this extension is a question that pulls in numerous guests. With a length of 108 meters, a width of 3.40 meters and 13 non-symmetrical curves, its development is utilized with slashed stones, while the track is made of stone tiles, the qualities ​​of this extension are included and from the pleasant territory alongside it with rocks and clean water . On the premise it is plainly observed that it isn't direct. Be that as it may, gets a tilt of 14 ° to the lower side around 5 m to one side of the huge curve. Constrained by the stones of the stream bed. We can see from the development procedures that the Middle Bridge has two phases of development. The primary stage sa...