An elegant guide to the old culture of Gjakova, Kosovo — its bazaar, mosques, stone houses and the people who shaped them.https://mygjakova.com/enhttps://mygjakova.com/places/grand-bazaar/https://mygjakova.com/places/grand-bazaar/The beating heart of old Gjakova — a kilometre of cobbled lanes lined with craftsmen's shops, the oldest and longest bazaar in Kosovo, burned in 1999 and rebuilt shop by shop.https://mygjakova.com/places/hadum-mosque/https://mygjakova.com/places/hadum-mosque/The late-Ottoman mosque at the head of the bazaar — its interior a painted garden of cypresses and flowers, and the endowment from which the whole old city grew.https://mygjakova.com/places/hadum-library/https://mygjakova.com/places/hadum-library/The college and famed library beside the Hadum Mosque — for centuries the old city's house of learning, until its manuscripts burned in 1999. The building has risen again; the books are gone for good.https://mygjakova.com/places/terzi-bridge/https://mygjakova.com/places/terzi-bridge/A long Ottoman stone bridge over the Erenik — eleven arches on the old Gjakova–Prizren road, financed by the city's tailors' guild and carved with their name.https://mygjakova.com/places/clock-tower/https://mygjakova.com/places/clock-tower/The Ottoman clock tower beside the bazaar — first raised in 1597, robbed of its bell by Montenegrin troops in 1912, lost again in the 1999 war, and rebuilt from old photographs.https://mygjakova.com/places/hammam/https://mygjakova.com/places/hammam/The vanished Ottoman bathhouse of the bazaar quarter — part of the endowment that made the old town whole, praised by a traveller in 1662, and the one piece of the Hadum complex that never came back.https://mygjakova.com/places/kulla/https://mygjakova.com/places/kulla/The fortified tower-house of the Dukagjin highlands — thick stone walls, a guest room at the top, and the old law of the Kanun built into its very plan.https://mygjakova.com/places/radoniq-lake/https://mygjakova.com/places/radoniq-lake/Kosovo's second-largest body of water — a vast reservoir below the mountains that waters the Dukagjin plain and supplies the city, its quiet, undeveloped shore the nearest open scenery to Gjakova.https://mygjakova.com/places/accursed-mountains/https://mygjakova.com/places/accursed-mountains/The alpine wall west of Gjakova — the Bjeshkët e Nemuna rising beyond the Erenik valley, with glacial lakes, high summer pastures, and Kosovo's highest peak within a day's reach.