Hotel Kalemi

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Hotel Kalemi located in Gjirokaster, Albania. The Hotel Kalemi was built to provide the city of Gjirokaster with international class facilities for foreign tourists from Europe and other countries. This charming guesthouse/hotel features traditional woodwork and carved ceilings inside, and the balcony offer sweeping view across the slate-roofed homes to the fortress. Tourist attractions within the city include an Ethnographic Museum (House of Enver Hoxha’s) and the Immense Fortress, the Mosque, Old Hammam as well as the cobblestoned streets, Old Bazaar and historic tower homes characteristic of Ottoman-era cities. Other area attractions include two archeological sites (the Illyrian city of Antigonea, and the theater and baths near Sofratike), one of the oldest standing Orthodox churches in the Balkans in the village of Labove, and the fortress of Ali Pasha in nearby Tepelene.