Gajtan Cave, Shkodër

The Gajtan Cave is located near the village of Gajtan, about 12 km east of Shkodra. The cave is formed by karst in the Triassic-Jurassic limestones and starts with a karst well. Next to it is a fortified Illyrian settlement of the Iron Age.

It is thought that: the cave is old around 100 thousand years before our era, in the Mesolithic and Paleolithic times, that is, the Old Stone and the Middle Stone. Professor Dushi claims that: The inhabitants came out of it in the New Stone period.

The cave has a narrow entrance and ample spaces inside. It consists of several rooms formed by the karst effect, while it is thought that people have lived there tens of thousands of years ago.

The cave of Gajtan is a special place because it is thought that tens of thousands of years ago people moved from there to build the town of Gajtan, which still bears the early traces of the Illyrian civilization. To visit the Gajtan Cave, follow the Shkodër-Gur i Zi-Gajtan rural road and the footpath.