the rocky city of Gjirokaster is a unique place, full of Ottoman architecture, cobblestone streets, and one imposing castle that almost seems to have grown naturally out of the rocky Albanian ...

The Gjirokaster Castle and the Ethnographic Museum are some of the must-visit places that give you a glimpse of the town's ...

Guidebooks used to write the name of my city in two ways: Gjirokastër in Albanian, and Argyrokastron ... The prison was built on top of a medieval castle, the highest point in the city.

But nothing strikes quite so hard as the armaments museum, hidden away inside the medieval castle which perches ... An Amazonian embodiment of Albania (her skirt becomes mountains) grips a rifle ...