Ardenica Monastery

Fier County · Albania

Ardenica Monastery, Albania
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A Byzantine-era Orthodox monastery on a low hill in central Albania, where the national hero Skanderbeg is said to have married. Its church of the Nativity of the Virgin holds fine post-Byzantine frescoes. Olive groves spread across the surrounding plain.

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