Niça

The village of Niça is a mountainous village which lies on a fertile plateau in the north of the province of Gora, which today belongs to the Municipality of Pogradec. The village is known for its antiquity as one of the first inhabited centers of the province of Gora. According to Ottoman documents, in the XVII – XVIII centuries, Niça was a small, well-developed town with about 7,000 inhabitants. Today Niça is a village with very few inhabitants, however it still retains its medieval characteristics with stone houses, churches, cobbled streets and the nearby stone bridge. Among the most important traces inherited from this former civic center are the church of Saint Mary which is located inside the village, some of the houses which show the high economic level of the former inhabitants of Niça, as well as the Niça Bridge.