You should also take in the city’s historic mosques. The Lead Mosque, at the centre of Berat, is a good place to begin and goes back to the 1500s, just when the city was gaining status as one of the most important locations for religion and trade in the western Ottoman Empire.
It’s built in the Turkish style and takes its name from the cupola, which is covered by a layer of lead. The Red Mosque meanwhile is in ruins can be found just beyond the walls of the citadel. Dating right back to the 1430s it is one of Albania’s earliest mosques, from the years directly following Berat’s conquest by the Ottomans.
