Dorez Castle, This castle represents the only urban center of the Tirana basin with a very long life, known by the locals as Qyteze.
The first traces of habitation belong to the Bronze Age (XIV-XIII centuries BC).
Its ruins cover one of the highest quotas in the range of hills detached from the Krraba mountains at an altitude of 479 m above sea level.
A steep plateau was chosen for the construction of the castle, where half of it is not surrounded by a wall, but is protected by natural rock. Its surrounding wall extends across the southern part of a rocky hill and is approximately 300 m long, from east to west.
The fortification system of this center has three different wall construction techniques: the first built with unhewn stones (Bronze period), the second with dry-laid carved blocks (Hellenistic period) and the third following the same the track with the second one is built with broken stones connected with mortar (late antiquity, IV-VI century).
In Dorez, archaeological material can be found even during the beginnings of the Roman occupation. In the Hellenistic period, the city of Dorez was an important center of the Parthian area. With the Roman occupation, this city, like all the cities and towns of South Illyria, had the same fate of abandonment, only to return there after 6 centuries. Fragments of other walls from a later period show that the early Illyrian city was inhabited until late antiquity.
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