The owners of a number of historic houses in Gjirokastra are turning them into guesthouses, reviving the well-known hospitality, but also as a way to make a living. Restorer Agron Haska is adapting his 300-year-old house situated in Palorto neighborhood as a hostel for domestic and foreign tourists. He says that seeing the increase of the flow of visitors urged him to invest his incomes in this sector

�I want to transform this house into a traditional guesthouse because I see that tourism is entering our neighborhoods,� says Haska.

The guesthouse is thought to have 6 rooms while preserving the architecture in most of them, as the tourist wants to see how a local resident lives, starting from accommodation to culinary.

The historic city that has been experiencing decades of degradation of old structures under the weight of the age seem to be reborn thanks to the citizens private initiatives.