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Dear Traveler,
We are taking you to the past, full of stories and legends, in the cross-border area of Montenegro, Albania, Puglia, and Molise.
You will enjoy visiting locations as a testimony of the rich diversity of culture and art, heritage and tradition, religion, architecture, intangible heritage, and craft, which has a significant potential for developing tourism in the region.
This itinerary is educational and entertaining, encouraging regional integration and valuing local culture and the common heritage.
It is appealing mixture of the finest cultural sites form Italy, Albania and Montenegro. If you are enjoying this itinerary make sure to share it with your friend and family.
Let’s start discovering!

Points of interest

Ostrog Monastery

- 81410 Danilovgrad

It's a monastery of the Orthodox Church located along an almost vertical cliff (vertical rock), high on the mountain Ostroska greda, which offers a...

Location Sastavci (Remains of Depedogen Fortress, Hadzi Pasha Bridge)

- 81000 Podgorica

On the plateau above the mouth of the Ribnica in Moraca are the remains of a Turkish fortress built from 1474 to 1477/8, in the time of Sultan Mehm...

Government house

- 81 250 Cetinje

The Montenegrin sovereign in...

Cattedrale di San Cataldo

The Cathedral of St. Catald in Taranto is the oldest cathedral in Puglia. Its Cappellone is particularly interesting: a triumph of Neapolitan baroque art.

Castel del Monte

Castel del Monte is a masterpiece of medieval architecture, commissioned by Frederick II of Swabia in 1240. It has been a UNESCO heritage site since 1996.

Museo Sigismondo Castromediano

The Sigismondo Castromediano Museum in Lecce illustrates and narrates the social, cultural and artistic evolution of Salento, contributing, through culture, to the well-being of the community.

Museo Paleolitico La Pineta di Isernia

The Museum of Paleolithic was born around the archaeological area of Isernia La Pineta and is divided into three buildings of about 4,000 square meters joined together by a long external corridor that accompanies the visitor to the visit thanks to a series of large photographs dedicated to all aspects of research, education and enhancement of the site and the museum. The last update of museum's collection offer a completely visit about the process of evolution of world.

Pontificia Fonderia di Campane Marinelli e Museo Storico ad Agnone

In Agnone, the Marinelli Museum is one of the few in the world that gathers a vast collection of bells from the year one thousand to our days, each with its shape, friezes, inscriptions, and particular sound. Written and iconographic material, drawings, sketches, reproductions, precious manuscripts and publications, documentation on the ancient art of bronze casting, complete the artistic, historical and cultural heritage of the museum.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale “G. Andreassi” e Parco Archeologico di Egnazia

The Museum's exhibition itinerary, divided into sections, narrates the events of the archaeological research activities in Gnatia and the his...

Santuario di San Michele Arcangelo

A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011, the Sanctuary of St. Michael the Archangel has been welcoming pilgrims from all over the world to Monte Sant'Angelo since the 5th century.

Berat Castle

The monument “Church of Labova e Kryqit” is one of the most interesting monuments in Albania dedicated to St. Mary. You go there following the high...

Rozafa Castle

Rozafa Castle, surrounded by Buna and Drini rivers is one of the major castles in Albania located in Shkodra, southwestern Albania. It rises on a r...

The Old Bazaar in Kruja

The Old Bazaar is the main source of income and economic growth for local people. Known by the locals as Derexhiku the Old Bazaar of Kruja dates to...

Castello Pignatelli di Monteroduni

The Pignatelli castle, with its beautiful crenellated towers, dominates the Volturno plain on the Isernia-Venafro road. In the past it was a key point of entry into the "Contado del Molise" as a lookout on the Via Latina. A first settlement nucleus, in the places where today the castle rises, dates back to the Samnite age. The origins of the castle-fortress instead date back to the Lombard period, when the population was forced to retreat to face the violent Saracen raids. It was with the Norman domination, however, that the castle, for purely military needs, was enlarged compared to the original Lombard structure and strengthened with the erection of walls, which also included some homes. In 1193 the entire country paid dearly for its deployment against the Emperor Henry VI in favor of the Norman Tancredi.

Teatro Tempio di Pietrabbondante

Its panoramic position, on the valley of the Trigno, and scenographic make it one of the most suggestive places of Molise. The Samnites were the first confederate people in the history of Italy, the various tribes were spread over an area that now includes parts of the current regions of Molise, Campania, Abruzzo, Puglia and Basilicata. This area was frequented since the fifth century BC, however, the first structures related to the cults Samnites are of the fourth century BC, this period dates back to the construction of the Ionic temple, building now disappeared, of which there are many traces of architectural elements reused in subsequent phases of construction.

Altilia

Altilia is an archeological area that costituted the ancient Roman city of Sepino which originated from the intersection of two important roads: the tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela and the road connecting the Matese to the coast. The area occupies an area of 12 hectares with sqaure plan, surrounded by reticulated wall.

Old town Kotor

- 85 339 Kotor

The roots of Kotor as a settlement go back to the distant past. Probably the oldest, prehistoric settlement was in the village of Spiljari, in a de...