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Onufri Iconographic Museum

Icons by the 16th-century master Onufri, famous for his deep red, in a church inside the castle.

Photo: Pasztilla aka Attila Terbócs · CC BY-SA 4.0
Open
Closed Mondays
Price
Paid
Time Needed
45 minutes
Address
Kalaja, BeratDirections
Getting There
Inside the castle walls.

Why Go

The museum fills the Cathedral of the Dormition, with a gilded iconostasis. Onufri's icons are known for a red so intense that painters still call it 'Onufri red'.

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