# Roots Albania in Berat: audio stories about 15 places

Canonical: https://rootsalbania.com/cities/berat
Published: 15 September 2026

Roots Albania has audio stories about 15 places in Berat (spelled Berat in Albanian too), a UNESCO World Heritage site in south-central Albania. The app covers 211 places in ten Albanian cities, in 28 languages, and needs no account: open Berat, pick a place and play its story.

## The 15 places in Berat with audio stories

In the order the app shows them, with the Albanian name after the English one.

1. Lead Mosque (Xhamia e Plumbit)
2. King's Mosque (Xhamia e Mbretit)
3. Halveti Tekke (Teqja Helvetive)
4. Berat Ethnographic Museum (Muzeu Etnografik i Beratit)
5. Mangalem Quarter (Lagjja Mangalem)
6. Church of St Michael (Kisha e Shën Mihailit)
7. Gorica Quarter (Lagjja Gorica)
8. Gorica Bridge (Ura e Goricës)
9. Berat Castle (Kalaja e Beratit)
10. Red Mosque (Xhamia e Kuqe)
11. Holy Trinity Church (Kisha e Shënmërisë së Trinisë)
12. Onufri Museum (Muzeu Onufri)
13. Cathedral of the Dormition (Katedralja e Ngjitjes)
14. Mount Tomorr (Mali i Tomorrit)
15. Osum Canyon (Kanioni i Osumit)

## Is there an audio guide for Berat Castle?

Yes, as audio stories. Berat Castle (Kalaja e Beratit) is place 9 of the 15 Berat places in Roots Albania: it has a short introduction and a story of about six minutes, in 28 languages, with a male and a female voice.

In one line: A castle inhabited without interruption for more than 24 centuries, with walls that preserve Illyrian, Byzantine, Despotate of Epirus and Ottoman layers.

The Red Mosque and the Onufri Museum, both inside the castle, and the Church of St Michael on the castle rock have their own stories too.

Roots Albania is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

## How to use Roots Albania in Berat

Open Roots Albania and choose Berat. The city has its own map of places with all 15 places on it; tap a place to play its short introduction or its story of about six minutes. You can listen in 28 languages, in a male or a female voice, and there is no account.

Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

## The other nine cities

- [Tirana](https://rootsalbania.com/cities/tirana), 39 places
- [Vlora (Vlorë)](https://rootsalbania.com/cities/vlora), 34 places
- [Saranda (Sarandë)](https://rootsalbania.com/cities/saranda), 33 places
- [Durrës](https://rootsalbania.com/cities/durres), 23 places
- [Korça (Korçë)](https://rootsalbania.com/cities/korca), 15 places
- [Pogradec](https://rootsalbania.com/cities/pogradec), 15 places
- [Gjirokastra (Gjirokastër)](https://rootsalbania.com/cities/gjirokastra), 15 places
- [Shkodra (Shkodër)](https://rootsalbania.com/cities/shkodra), 12 places
- [Kruja (Krujë)](https://rootsalbania.com/cities/kruja), 10 places

## All 15 places in Berat, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a story of about six minutes in the Roots Albania app. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude), the type, the period and the one line descriptions are taken from the app's catalogue on 15 September 2026; a place without a one line description here has none short enough to print.

### 1. Lead Mosque

- Albanian name: Xhamia e Plumbit
- Coordinates: 40.70444444, 19.95527778
- Type of place: religious
- Period: Ottoman
- In one line: A mid-16th-century Ottoman mosque in Mangalem, whose name comes from the lead sheets that Ragusan craftsmen laid over its brick dome.

### 2. King's Mosque

- Albanian name: Xhamia e Mbretit
- Coordinates: 40.7056888, 19.9520365
- Type of place: religious
- Period: Ottoman

### 3. Halveti Tekke

- Albanian name: Teqja Helvetive
- Coordinates: 40.706, 19.9525
- Type of place: religious
- Period: Ottoman

### 4. Berat Ethnographic Museum

- Albanian name: Muzeu Etnografik i Beratit
- Coordinates: 40.7076724, 19.9503945
- Type of place: museum
- Period: modern
- In one line: The Llavda House, a three-century-old home of a family of major landowners, turned into the National Ethnographic Museum in 1979.

### 5. Mangalem Quarter

- Albanian name: Lagjja Mangalem
- Coordinates: 40.705387, 19.949939
- Type of place: cultural
- Period: Ottoman
- In one line: Berat's historic Muslim quarter, clinging to the right slope of the Osum below the castle, known for the stacked-window facades that gave the city the name City of a Thousand Windows.

### 6. Church of St Michael

- Albanian name: Kisha e Shën Mihailit
- Coordinates: 40.70472222, 19.94666667
- Type of place: religious
- Period: Byzantine
- In one line: A small 14th-century Byzantine church set directly on the southern rock of Berat castle, with an inscribed-cross plan and cloisonné masonry.

### 7. Gorica Quarter

- Albanian name: Lagjja Gorica
- Coordinates: 40.702566, 19.946716
- Type of place: cultural
- Period: Ottoman
- In one line: Berat's historic Orthodox quarter facing Mangalem, linked to it by the stone bridge over the Osum, with the still-active churches of Saint Spyridon and Saint Thomas, part of the UNESCO World Heritage.

### 8. Gorica Bridge

- Albanian name: Ura e Goricës
- Coordinates: 40.703284272, 19.944605181
- Type of place: architectural
- Period: Ottoman
- In one line: An Ottoman stone bridge with 7 asymmetrical arches, built around 1780 by order of Ahmet Kurt Pasha over the Osum River.

### 9. Berat Castle

- Albanian name: Kalaja e Beratit
- Coordinates: 40.708, 19.945
- Type of place: historical
- Period: medieval
- In one line: A castle inhabited without interruption for more than 24 centuries, with walls that preserve Illyrian, Byzantine, Despotate of Epirus and Ottoman layers.

### 10. Red Mosque

- Albanian name: Xhamia e Kuqe
- Coordinates: 40.70726, 19.94572
- Type of place: religious
- Period: Ottoman
- In one line: One of the oldest mosques on Albanian soil, raised within the castle of Berat immediately after the Ottoman conquest of 1417 for the military garrison.

### 11. Holy Trinity Church

- Albanian name: Kisha e Shënmërisë së Trinisë
- Coordinates: 40.707777777, 19.944527777
- Type of place: religious
- Period: Byzantine

### 12. Onufri Museum

- Albanian name: Muzeu Onufri
- Coordinates: 40.7089617, 19.945246
- Type of place: museum
- Period: Byzantine
- In one line: A national iconographic museum opened in 1986 inside the Church of the Dormition of Saint Mary in the castle of Berat.

### 13. Cathedral of the Dormition

- Albanian name: Katedralja e Ngjitjes
- Coordinates: 40.7092, 19.9452
- Type of place: religious
- Period: Ottoman

### 14. Mount Tomorr

- Albanian name: Mali i Tomorrit
- Coordinates: 40.709088888, 20.141802777
- Type of place: natural
- Period: ancient
- In one line: The most imposing mountain of southeastern Albania, with a peak at 2416 metres (Çuka e Partizanit), a cult site since Illyrian times and today the holiest centre in the world of the Bektashi order.

### 15. Osum Canyon

- Albanian name: Kanioni i Osumit
- Coordinates: 40.47, 20.255
- Type of place: natural
- Period: ancient
- In one line: A karst canyon twenty-six kilometres long, carved by the Osum over two to three million years, with walls up to eighty metres high and a bed that narrows to one and a half metres.

## Roots Albania in short

- 211 places across 10 Albanian cities
- 10 cities, each with its own map of places
- 28 languages
- 2 stories for every place: a short introduction and a story of about six minutes
- No account
- Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection
- The stories are written by local people

Get the app on the [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761542889) for iPhone and on [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsalbania.app) for Android.

Roots Albania for iOS and Android is made by ROOTS SHPK, Rruga Zef Jubani, Nd. 4, H. 1, Ap. 3, Njësia Administrative Nr. 5, 1000 Tiranë, Albania, NUIS M61803028A, D-U-N-S 631176123, +355 69 443 8348, hello@rootsalbania.com, [roots-shpk.com](https://roots-shpk.com) and [rootsearth.com](https://rootsearth.com).

## More from Roots Albania

- [All ten cities](https://rootsalbania.com/cities): the ten cities with their number of places.
- [What Roots Albania is](https://rootsalbania.com/app): the app in one page: 211 places, ten cities, 28 languages, how it works.
- [Questions travellers ask](https://rootsalbania.com/faq): the cities, the languages, the account, listening without a connection.
- [The 28 languages](https://rootsalbania.com/languages): every language with its code, and a male and a female voice in each.
- [Events and activities](https://rootsalbania.com/events-and-activities): what is on in the city, and things to do you arrange with the provider.
- [About Roots Albania](https://rootsalbania.com/about): ROOTS SHPK in Tirana, and the company details.
- [Press and facts](https://rootsalbania.com/press): the fact sheet, the logo files, the store links and the contact address.
- [Comparisons](https://rootsalbania.com/compare): Roots Albania and eight other apps, the facts of each side by side.