Bajrakli Mosque

An old complex where its namesake political organization was founded in June 10, 1878. The Albanian Prizren League began with a gathering of 300 representatives of all Albanian regions. In the meeting there were also Bosnians from Bosnia and Sanjak. The aim of the meeting was to form an autonomous Albanian state that would cover the Ottoman regions (vilayets) of Prizren, Shkodra, Monastir and Yanina. The League was the first serious effort to create a united Albanian region since the medieval era of Skanderbeg.

It is a distinctive complex of low brick domes. No longer used as public baths, the building is occasionally used for art exhibits. The Hamam of Prizren is an early Ottoman-era monument in which oriental and local traditions combine. It was built in the heart of the city in 1563/4 by Gazi Mehmet Pasha, at the time when he was also building the nearby mosque. The Hamam has two large and nine small domes and is separated into men’s and women’s sections. As one of the most precious Hamams in South-East Europe, it embodies special architectural, historical, cultural and social values. Integrated for centuries in the lives of the citizens, it has become a symbol for the spiritual and cultural heritage of Prizren and its region. The building functioned as a Hamam until 1944. It then served for cheese production, as a warehouse, and later the entrance area was used for cultural events. In state protection since 1954, the Hamam was repaired and maintained until 1981 when it was left at the mercy of time. After the NATO intervention in Kosovo in 1999, some limited measures were undertaken for the monument’s protection.

It is a 350-year-old tariqah in the center of Prizren. The tekke object of the Halveti is found in the Saraçët neighborhood, near the Kukli Mehmed Bey's mosque. The Havlet Tariqah was established at the end of the 16th century, by father Osman who came to Prizren and lived in Kukli Mehmet-Bey's mosque. The object is simple, built of stone and mud while the coverage is made from traditional brick. The tekke complex consists of several buildings, such as the tekke, rites room (semihane), shrine, residential building and waiting room. More generally, the complex consists of two parts: the tekke and the rites room.

A maple tree stands in Marash Park along the Prizren Bistrica. In the Marash neighborhood nearby there was once a khanqah or Sufi monastery known locally as a tekke, whose founder is said to have planted the tree. The tree was legally protected in 1959 and is scientifically estimated to be over 400 years old (though legends stretch the age to 500 years). The Marash maple is 20.9 metres (69 ft) with a crown 12 metres (39 ft) in diameter, a trunk 3 metres (9.8 ft) in circumference at the base, and leaves 13 centimetres (5.1 in) to 14 centimetres (5.5 in) long. The tree lies 417 metres (1,368 ft) above sea level.

Through the attractive river valley, passing next to a 600 year old tree. At one point the path seems to come to a dead-end, retrace your steps and cross the bridge. Eventually the path leaves the river and turns right, uphill through woods where there is abundant wildlife (butterflies, woodpeckers, lizards, salamanders and tortoises have been sighted!). The path eventually leads to the fortress, from where you can make your way back down past the Orthodox Cathedral.

Lumbardhi Cinema was established in 1952 in Prizren, in then the Socialist Yugoslavia. Opened as part of a modern cultural construction in a newly emerged country, it first operated as an indoor cinema. In 1959, the outdoor cinema was also opened for the public. Until the military intervention in 1999, Lumbardhi functioned as a cinema which was governed as a self-managed public institution. ; Following the war in 1999, and due to the financial and logistical difficulties, it couldn’t re-functionalise itself, and was turned into an asset to be liquidated by the privatisation agency. Despite its sad institutional fate in the new post-war situation, the cinema preserved its collective meaning as a site of memory, informal gatherings and festivals. ; The famous documentary film festival of the city, Dokufest, which opened its first edition in 2002 at Lumbardhi, was an important link that connected the new and old generations of cinema lovers. Following an initiative that saved it from demolition in 2007 after the decision of the then-mayor, there was an attempt to privatise it in 2014 but was fiercely opposed by the campaign led by EC Ma Ndryshe, DokuFest and the Network of Cultural Organisations – RrOK, that managed to stop the privatisation process. ; Kino Lumbardhi is closing for renovations in June 2025.