Shkodra, Albania

Drisht Castle

Drisht Castle, Shkodra

The ruins of the medieval city of Drivastum lie ten kilometres northeast of Shkodër. For a thousand years, the city was a religious, commercial and military centre of northern Albania. After the Ottoman conquest of fourteen seventy-eight, it was left to fall into ruin and was never rebuilt.

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Location

Coordinates: 42.1235, 19.6112

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