DROMCA KULTURORE NGA TRASHËGIMIA E OPOJËS
CULTURAL FRAGMENTS FROM THE OPOJA HERITAGE

Summary/Abstract: Through this paper we aim to give some cultural fragments of heritage in the region of Opoja. Traditional culture, customs and mores which have been present in the life of the Opojans from antiquity to the present day, being transmitted from generation to generation in a continuum, have contributed to the identification of the original Opojan culture. Ranging from the men’s and women’s dances, the wrestling and horse racing, accompanied by characteristic instruments, drums and curla. Songs of different genres have inspired cultural and artistic groups and societies to participate in national and international festivals such as dance and lyrical songs of weddings, kurbet (exile), work, love, etc. Some scholars, local and foreign, with their writings have contributed to enlighten the Opoja region in the field of heritage culture and in particular folklore and folk instruments such as choreographer Xhemali Berisha, composer Lorenc Antoni, Agron Xhagolli, Valent Qafleshi, Bedri Halimi, Muharrem Qafleshi, Danish researcher Brithe Traerup and American anthropologist Jane Susan Reineck.

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