Diber independent travel guide (2025): top things to do, popular tourism attractions, itinerary planning, accommodation, food, transportation, weather, and more - everything you need to know (updated August 2025) | Trip.com
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#tripaway Zog Bridge is a better thing for its architectural structure. The style of the arches gives it museum value. It is located on the right side of the road that leads to Mirdita, on both extremes of the Mat River, since 1927. called for many years the Bird Bridge, the king himself was the originator of the construction of this multifunctional bridge, especially for the right time. In those years it was a necessary gate to enter the upper Albania that causes Shkodra, Lezha, Mirdita, Tropoja, Kukes, Puka, etc. The bridge was designed by an Italian engineer Martini and almost the entire material base was solved by the Italians. The project was implemented by an Albanian engineer, Gjovalin Gjadri, an engineer who has designed a car in Milot-Burrel, which passes through the Turku meadow through Mirdita. According to the press of the time, bridge is a game within a year and is distinguished for its grandeur.
Vasha Bridge is located on the Mat River between Klosi and the village of Guri i Bardhë, 200 m linear from Arbër road.
Built at the beginning of the 18th century as a charity work by Haxhi Hajrulla Skura.
The bridge is built of limestone and has an arch on the right side and a discharge window.
Also, the bridge has double arches. The foot of the bridge is set on two rocky shores.
The length of the bridge is 11m, its height from the water surface is 7m, the width 2.8m and the distance between the two legs is 7m.
The surface of the bridge is paved with river cobblestones, lime mortar and stone blocks.
Vasha Bridge is visited by many Albanian and foreign tourists, even a small sign saying "Vasha Bridge" is placed by Czech tourists.
To enable tourists to visit the Bridge, a road should be opened from Arbër road to the monument, a cost not too high due to the proximity to the road.
This bridge carries great historical but also architectural values, moreover in a magnificent natural landscape.
Vasha Bridge is one of the oldest bridges of this style built
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The province of Mat is a true archeological museum and the ancient cradle of Illyrian culture. Objects have been discovered there, from which data emerge for all historical periods of cultural development not only of the Mati region but also beyond. Mati has now become known not only within the country but also outside Albania, as an important archaeological province with special values, especially for the tracing and study of Illyrian culture ”. In 1952 in the village of Bushkash began the study of three hills of Illyrian tombs or as they are called in the archaeological language tumuli. In 1952-1960, 35 more Illyrian mounds were discovered and excavated, most of them belonging to the first Iron Age. In 1971-1984, another 18 mounds were discovered and excavated, bringing the number of mounds to 53. The culture of mounds and tombs in Mat includes the Middle Bronze Age to the first centuries AD. In addition to the studies of the mausoleums, some cave settlements located north of the village of Bruç have been studied, as well as the cave settlements of Blaz, Këputë, Pëllumbave and Neziri. Various archaeological excavations have uncovered material traces from the Middle Paleolithic period to the Neolithic and beyond. They shed light on the rites, the docks of the Illyrians, the Arbërs, the level of economic and cultural development that is expressed in their settlements in castles in towns in the way of building tunnels, tombs, burial rites, etc ... found mostly ornaments which, in most cases are of bronze, but also found objects of gold such as two spiral temples.
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