Explore the ancient castles of Albania

Shkoder Rozafa Castle is a common castle in Albania and even in the Balkans. Its historical evolution and story are basically the "historical script" of "Rome, Greece, Byzantium, and Ottoman" fighting, killing, belief, and forced belief! The architectural structure of the castle is basically high ground, thick city, palace and military camp! Churches and prisons that are exactly the same and necessary! The castle is located at the highest point of the mountains, and the roads leading to the castle are paved with smooth stones. Only the outline of the city wall remained, and only the frame of the palace building remained, with broken walls and overgrown weeds everywhere. Even so, when you hike inside the castle, you can experience the beauty of its ruins, be shocked by its huge scale and layout, and imagine its grandeur and majesty in its heyday. Standing on the castle wall platform, you can have a bird's eye view of the entire Shkoder city and Lake Shkoder, the largest lake in the Balkans. The city buildings with red roofs and white walls, the winding rivers, the straight roads that run through the city, the bridges across the rivers, and the square fields where yellow and green meet can all be seen from a 360-degree angle. I think when the ancient kings built these castles, in addition to considering the terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, they must have also enjoyed the imperial majesty of looking down on their citizens from a high vantage point.