Albanian Cultural Heritage

BERATI COUNTY
The Gorica Quarter Home has two floors
and a basement. The porch, a crib on
the left side and a stere on the right side
form the basement. Two pairs of stairs are
connected to the balcony at the first floor.
The first floor plan shapes like a horseshoe
where in the center is the church which is
surrounded by the other areas. The house
has been through various construction and
restoration phases. In the 1st phase the
home was of the garret type, where the
wooden columns that hold the joist, on
which the roof sits, joined in the upper part
with a carved wooden pillow.
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Later, the house went through three more
phases of construction and restoration:
in the first, was the the construction of
additional areas on the left of both floors;
in the next phase was the extension of
the areas on the right side and the closing
of garret; in the last phase, the house
was divided into two parts suited for two
families. At the threshold of the basement
is noted the year 1864, which was during
the third phase of construction, though the
home itself may have been built in the 18th
century.