The Photo Collection of Edith Durham

Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo, 1903 - 1913

ED021_RAI 400.13243 Kosovo. Prizren. View of Prizren with the old covered bridge and fortress (Photo: Edith Durham, September 1908). “We drove along the plain, on Drin’s right bank, passing on our left a Moslem village, Djurtha, and on our right another, Ragova, both with mosques. Fording Drin, we halted at midday at Han Krusha, a newly-built inn of mud bricks, whose Moslem owners were most civil. Then on over land that was fairly cultivated and looked fertile – maize, corn, and tobacco – and through Pirona, a large Moslem village, up over rising ground, and there lay Prizren in the valley below, with the ruins of an old castle and the white walls of modern barracks on the height beyond. Fortune was favouring me beyond my deserts. Prizren was another of my dream cities, and I beheld it with my waking eyes.” (Edith Durham, High Albania, 1909).