During the month of October, some students from Norway came
to Kosovo, because they had to do a paper that would describe
the current situation here and my friend Shqiptar Ibra, who
works in the Tourist Agency that was responsible to guide them
in Kosovo, told me that one of the first questions that he was
asked from them was: How safe are we here?
And that has been one of the main factors that has motivated
me and that friend to participate in Wikiacademy II, and write
an article about the tourism in Prishtina (we weren’t allowed
to write for the whole Kosova). So we wanted to show the real
image of Prishtina, like it is an inhabited city from pre
historical periods whose ruins can be found near Ulpiana and
Harilaq today, even though unfortunately a lot of the them
have been destroyed; it has been playing a very important
role during World War II, serving as a shelter for Jews; its
citizens are known for hospitality, religious tolerance,
optimism and young age; its unique and delicious traditional
food and some rare characteristics like the only mosque in
Europe that has its top built with stone bricks instead of
aluminum; Gadime Marble Cave near Prishtina, the Monument of
Newborn and a lot more.
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