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Church Attractions In Fier County

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Fier is a city and a municipality in Fier County in southwest Albania. The population of the former municipality at the 2011 census was 85,845.Geographically, it is located on the center of the country surrounded by hills. The city is located some 16 kilometres east of the Adriatic Sea and 100 kilometres south of Tirana. Fier is 11 km from the ruins of the ancient city of Apollonia. The city was founded in 588 BCE by Greek colonists from Corfu and Corinth, on a site initially occupied by Illyrian tribes.
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Church Attractions In Fier County

  • 1. Church of St Mary Fier
    St. Paraskevi's Church is a small 13th-century church in Hoxharë, Fier County, Albania. It became a Cultural Monument of Albania in 1979.
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  • 2. Ardenica Monastery Ardenice
    The Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Ardenica or simply Ardenica Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery, distant 18 kilometers north of Lushnje, Albania, along the national road that links Lushnjë to Fier. is an Eastern Orthodox monastery, distant 18 kilometers north of Lushnje, Albania, along the national road that links Lushnjë to Fier.Built by Byzantine Emperor, Andronikos II Palaiologos in 1282 after the victory against the Angevins in the Siege of Berat, the monastery is famous as the place where, in 1451, was celebrated the marriage of Skanderbeg, the national hero of Albania, with Andronika Arianiti. In 1780 the Monastery started a theological school to prepare clerics in Greek Orthodoxy. It had an important library with 32,000 volumes that got completely burned b...
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