Day trip · about an hour from Tirana
Krujë Castle, the Skanderbeg Museum, the Ethnographic Museum and the old bazaar of crafts.
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A castle on a crag, a hero’s museum and the best crafts bazaar in Albania.
Go in the morning, see both museums and the castle, and browse the bazaar on the way down.
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The back story
Skanderbeg’s mountain stronghold: a castle on a crag above the plain, a museum to the hero, an old bazaar of crafts, an hour from Tirana.
Skanderbeg’s stronghold
The castle on a crag above the plain, with houses, a tekke and views.
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The national hero
A museum devoted to Skanderbeg inside the castle.
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An 18th-century house
A wealthy family’s 18th-century house inside the castle.
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Crafts and carpets
The cobbled bazaar below the castle, full of craft shops.
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Little Khorasan
A Bektashi tekke completed in 1779–80 in the southern corner of Krujë castle.
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About an hour from Tirana
Buses and furgons run from Tirana to Krujë in about an hour.
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