The monumental tombs of Selca are located 40 kilometers from Pogradec, in an impressive natural landscape.

The maintenance workers of Regional of Culture Heritage (DRTK) of Korça in cooperation with the employees of Pogradec municipality are carrying out maintenance works in Selca Monumental Tombs.

They have also organized the territory, carried out repairs and cleaned the vegetation, on the eve of the start of the tourist season.

Korça Regional Directorate of Cultural Heritage has published on social networks photos from these works on this cultural heritage site.

DRTK of Korça states that monumental tombs are a unique heritage which testifies to the former existence of a developed Illyrian capital where it is thought to be the resting place of King Monun.

Selca tombs are an extraordinary cultural asset that show the ancient human settlements on Albanian lands and testify to the traditional way of life in Illyria in the IV-III centuries BC. This area is very close to Lake Ohrid, almost 40 km from Pogradec.

The tombs of Selca are royal and belong to the princes and princesses of the ancient city of Pelion. They are two-story monumental tombs embedded in the rocks on a beautiful green hill in the village of Lower Selca close to Pogradec.

For the first time they were discovered in the 40s and were fully excavated in 1971.

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