Description
Known as the "city of serenades", the cultural cradle of the province, once also called "Little Paris" of Albania. The cultural center of Albania once was Voskopoja (Moscopoli), it transferred all its culture and wisdom together with many inhabitants to the city of Korça, after being burned and destroyed by the Ottomans. We will visit the city center, the Orthodox Cathedral of the "Resurrection of Christ", the largest in Albania, built in 1992 in place of the old cathedral which was demolished during the Communist regime, and hundreds of other religious structures at that time the regime did not it allowed no religious profession. After the cathedral, we will go to the museum which remembers the "First Albanian language school in Albania" which opened in 1887 and is located in the center of the city of Korça.
