Ardenica Monastery near Fier, Albania

in #photography6 years ago

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It's a beautiful place on the hill Ardenica. The orthodox Monetary was Built by Byzantine Emperor, Andronikos II Palaiologos in 1282 after the victory against the Angevins in the Siege of Berat. The monastery is famous as the place where, in 1451, was celebrated the marriage of Skanderbeg with his wife. It had an important library with 32000 volumes that got completely burned by a fire in 1932.
You can visit the church and some parts of the Monetary. But most are closed. They need to renovate.


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