In the first 7 months of the year, the city of Kruja has attracted a high number of local and foreign tourists.

A high flow of visitors has been recorded at the George Kastrioti Skanderbeg Museum, which remains one of the main destinations along with the old characteristic bazaar.

According the Albanian News Agency, only during January-July of 2023, the museum was visited by more than 50 thousand local and foreign visitors. The figure is 50% higher as compared to the same period of the past year.

Only during July, there were 11,500 local and foreign tourists to visit the museum.

Tourists are mainly from Germany, Italy, Spain, United States and Poland, which marks the highest number of foreign visitors this year.

The National Museum George Kastrioti Skanderbeg was inaugurated on November 1, 1982 in the Castle of Kruja. The museum complex is divided into several pavilions, according to a chronological order of historical events.

The museum holds objects belonging to different historical periods. Some pavilions show the history of the Early Middle Ages, the Albanian Principalities, and the Albanian resistance against the Ottoman conquest.

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