Kruja Castle Tour: Historic Landmark and Bazaar

Explore the historic Kruja Castle, one of Albania’s most significant landmarks. Discover the country’s largest bazaar and browse local handicrafts, and enjoy the Sari Salltik mountain viewpoint.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Kruja Castle - Join a guided tour of Kruja city to explore all its iconic attractions. Visit Kruja Castle, Skanderbeg’s Museum, the Old Bazaar, and Sari Salltik mountain.
    We will pick you up from the hotel and start the tour to Kruja city. After around one hour driving you are in Kruja and we continue the first visit to the Castle of Kruja, which…
What's Included
  • Castle entrance fees
  • Skanderbeg Museum ticket
  • Transportation to the destination location
  • English speaking tour guide
  • Pick up and drop off from Tirana city
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Ethnographic Museum ticket ( 6 euro per person)
Location
Ministry of Justice
Bulevardi Zogu I
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Joyce_h
Nov 24, 2024
Enjoyable trip - Antonio was very knowledgeable and excellent in covering the History and touring the museum together. He made the trip pleasant and enjoyable. Kruja and Sari Saltik town were beautiful and the views are breathtaking. I had the best lamb dish at QB Restaurant Bardhi. The food was fresh and divine. Highly recommended.
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Christina_f
Nov 23, 2024
Amazon tour - Great Tour! We started punctual, the ride to Kruja Castle went smooth. We saw the Bazar and went to the museum. Our guide Ervin has great knowledge of the history of Albania and told us a lot of interesting facts. Due to the bad weather conditions we couldn‘t see the view point, but apart from that everything was awesome.
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Guillaume_c
Nov 15, 2024
5/5!! - Klajdi was an amazing guide. We'll spoken, very informative and very approachable. He made for an excellent day
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Mirybcn
Nov 12, 2024
Good choice for a half day tour - Very good tour if you have half a day off and looking for a place near Tirana. It allows you to see the panoramic views from the mountain and also the museum of the castle of Kruja with a complete explanation. You can stop by the bazaar for souvenirs. The filigree earrings are pretty pretty.
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Mirian_g
Nov 8, 2024
Nice trip - Great trip with Ervin with a detailed explanation. Worth the visit, including landscape and cultural sites
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Taylor_f
Nov 7, 2024
Antonio was great! - Kruja was such a beautiful place! Really great to escape the hustle and bustle and dirtiness of Tirana for the day. Antonio was really incredible. He was charismatic and incredibly knowledgeable. The man has a degree in history so he is putting that to good use! Would highly recommend this tour. Traffic in Tirana is bonkers so let someone local drive you places rather than trying to get there yourself.
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Debora_b
Nov 3, 2024
Great tour - It was a great tour and was well coordinated with the correct and on-time pick-up location via WhatsApp. The tour guide, Antonio, is experienced and knowledgeable about the Albanian story and provided information during the visit to the Kruja museum.
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Wanderer34307375856
Oct 26, 2024
Amazing experience - Great experience, loads of history my tour guide's name was Antonio who was an amazing host, very polite and full of information, answered all my questions. Will recommend this tour for everyone visiting Albania ❤️🇦🇱
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Peter_h
Nov 3, 2024
Excellent guide but really lousy bus - Excellent guide (Antonio) but lousy bus. Sat on the back row and couldnt see anything at all during the 2,5 hours drive each way
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Dom1000000
Oct 27, 2024
Castle was great too much time stuck in traffic - During our trip to Tirana we want to break out from the city and see some of the other sights of Albania. We selected this tour as it looked interesting, with a reasonable duration. We met at the meeting point in central Tirana, however unfortunately then due to the terrible Tirana traffic and numerous pickups spent the net hour going round Tirana before we even really start out towards Kruja. After spending more time trying to escape the traffic chaos in Tirana we event would out way out to Kruja and up to the mountain top to visit the holy site of Sari Salltik. I would describe this as underwhelming, although with nice weather you might get some nice views. The cave with the tombs had a fresh water spa at the bottom, although when I went down this seemed to be a tap! Arriving back to Kruja we walked through the old Bazaar which looks quaint, but in reality most of these shops are selling mainly the same tourist souvenirs and so it is questionable how much time you really need to explore. We were given 2 hours after the visit to the castle, and this seems excessive even if it was allowing people to go and find lunch. The weather also did not help on our tour as it was raining. It also seems some of the locations to eat and drink hiked the prices and seemed poor value. The tour of the castle and the museum was great, the guide was very knowledgeable and gave a great tour with insightful descriptions. After the time in Kruja we again spent several hours getting back to central Tirana. All in all the time spent on the tour was about almost 8 hours and most of this was spent in the bus getting to and from Kruja. The castle visit was interesting, I'm just not sure it was worth the time spend on this trip. Shorter time for exploring the bizaar and departing earlier might have helped with the travel time. I find it hard to really recommend this trip even though the castle tour and guide were great.
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