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Travel destinations Comments: 0 May 25, 2018

Himara or Himarë (from Greek: Χειμάρρα, Himarra) is a bilingual region and municipality in southern Albania, part of Vlorë County. It lies between the Ceraunian Mountains and the Ionian Sea and is part of the Albanian Riviera. The region consists of the town of Himarë and the villages of Dhërmi, Pilur, Kudhës, Qeparo, Vuno, Ilias, and Palasë.
The Himara region is a strip approximately 20 km long by 5 km wide, bounded by the 2000 metre high Llogara mountains to the northeast and the Ionian Sea to the southwest. There are long white sandy beaches and the few hills close to the sea are terraced and planted with olive and citrus trees.

HIMAR'S HERITAGE - Himara's old town, and the castle itself are important monuments that need protection so they will not suffer irreparable damage. In the castle there are signs of the ceaselessness of the local Iliro-Albanian inhabitants for more than 3500 years. In this castle is worth to sing facilities:
SAINT MARIA - Byzantine style church with the icon of St. Mary considered miraculous. In the days of drought, the icon Himarjotet was drawn for folk litany (prayer). The people praying for rain. The confession is that the miracle really happened.
CHURCH OF EPISCOPAL - Church of Byzantine Style. Before the present-day building of this church, at its gateway, there is a basement of marble with the two-lyrical Iliro-Albanian eagle. The building of the Episcopal Church has foundations on an old building that was the shrine of Apollo of Illyria.
CHURCH OF ALL HOLINESS - Built in 1775 at the entrance to the castle. Today, this rebuilt church functions as Himara's [Himane Central] Mitropolia.
BEAUTIFUL TOWER (Palermo) - To the south of Himara, on a small peninsula, within the safe bay of the same name, is the beautiful fortress, built at the beginning of the 19th century by Ali Pashai of Ioannina and today kept in very well. The castle was built on the ruins of an old fortress and a monastery that existed there, according to the English traveler Lik who visited the country. At the site where the peninsula is linked to the land, there is the church of St. Nicholas, for which there are many legends and stories about the castle construction.

SEAS - Himara is renowned for its beautiful beaches, most of them with lush but also white and fine sand. Spilea is Himara's central beach, more visitors to the summer, furthermore are Prino, Potami, Filikuri, south Llamana, Qeparoi, Borshi, the banks of Picern (Buneci), Lukova and Kakomea in Nivica (but with hard roads ). Below the Himara fortress is Livadhi, and in the north is Jali, Fusha, Ziso, Gjipea, Karkaniqi, Dhërmi, Palasa and Dhralea.