{"id":2519,"date":"2017-06-25T18:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T18:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gjirokastra.org\/expe-tours\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2017-06-25T18:38:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T18:38:54","slug":"gjirokastra-first-sight-1-day-tour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gjirokastra.org\/expe-tours\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Gjirokastra at first sight \u2013 1 Day Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experiencing the living tradition of Gjirokastra, is a Day visit. The visitors are Introduced to the history and heritage of Gjirokastra such as the: ancient handicrafts and artisan traditions; the mastery of home made food; the unique architecture of the Gjirokastra; the challenge of restoration and preservation of the authenticity.<\/p>\n<h4>Introduction to the history and heritage of Gjirokastra<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Visit the Castle and the Gjirokastra Museum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Ancient handicrafts and artisan traditions of Gjirokastra<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Meet artisans and handmade souvenir producers<\/li>\n<li>Shop for personalized souvenirs in the Medieval Bazaar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tasting the mastery of Gjirokastra home cooking<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Lunch with homemade food in a typical historic house<\/li>\n<li>Taste traditional dishes of Gjirokastra: qifqi and hoshaf<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Written in Stone: the unique architecture of the Gjirokastra<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Walk upon the unique cobblestone streets<\/li>\n<li>Visit the Medieval Bazaar and Palorto neighborhood<\/li>\n<li>Meet a master stone-carver and socialize with the locals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Ottoman-style Gjirokastra houses and life in the past<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Visit the tower house of Zekate and meet the family<\/li>\n<li>Visiting the Skenduli House<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>The challenge of restoration and preservation of the authenticity<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Visiting the Babameto house \u2013 An example of revitalization in effort to save the City of Stone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Evening of entertainment and traditional dinner at the 19th century Babameto House, cooking, dancing, and singing together. Learn iso-polyphonic singing and traditional dancing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>No of people: 5-12<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Activity: 9 hours<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Accommodation: Babameto House or similar. Traditional breakfast included.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiencing the living tradition of Gjirokastra, is a Day visit. The visitors are Introduced to the history and heritage of Gjirokastra such as the: ancient handicrafts and artisan traditions; the mastery of home made food; the unique architecture of the Gjirokastra; the challenge of restoration and preservation of the authenticity. Introduction to the history and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[36,26,25,27,35,28,32,33,34,29,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjirokastra.org\/expe-tours\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjirokastra.org\/expe-tours\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjirokastra.org\/expe-tours\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjirokastra.org\/expe-tours\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjirokastra.org\/expe-tours\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gjirokastra.org\/expe-tours\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjirokastra.org\/expe-tours\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjirokastra.org\/expe-tours\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjirokastra.org\/expe-tours\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjirokastra.org\/expe-tours\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}