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| | Berat Things to Do Tips by JLBG - VirtualTourist.com |
 | | After Butrint in 1999, the museum city of Gjirokastra in 2005, Berat, another museum city, should be inscribed in 2006 on the World Heritage list by the Unesco. |
 | | The architecture of Berat though typically Balkanic, with corbelled buildings, does not show much wood as it occurs often. |
 | | It has a handsome portico and an interesting external decoration (enlarge the second photo) of flowers, plants, houses, etc. The word "beqar", which literally means bachelor, and refers to the young shop assistants, most of the time bachelors, whom the merchants in Berat used to hire as their own private militia. |
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