Bregu i Diellit, Pristina — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Bregu i Diellit?

Bregu i Diellit carries one entry on Kosovo's protected heritage list, and it is not a mosque or a memorial but Ish Katastri i Komunës, the former municipal cadastre, a twentieth-century building at the quarter's southern end. The category on that list is architectural. Hyzri Talla gathers the Qendra Tregtare Bregu i Diellit shopping centre and Family Medicine Centre VI, while the Ismail Qemali primary school stands on Enver Maloku.

The National Library of Kosovo, the Newborn monument and the Prishtina Clock Tower belong to the centre of Pristina, downhill and north of here, and not one of them stands on this hill.

What is the history of Bregu i Diellit?

Bregu i Diellit was planned before it was built, one of three new quarters that Pristina's 1962 urban plan set out under the architect Bashkim Fehmiu. Dardania and Ulpiana were the other two. On 2 November 1989 Serbian police surrounded Afrim Zhitia and Fahri Fazliu, two leaders of the underground People's Movement of Kosovo, in Bregu i Diellit, and both men died in the gun battle that followed. A street in the quarter carries Afrim Zhitia's name.

Dua Lipa and her father Dukagjin, whose family is from here, named their Sunny Hill Festival after it.

Where is Bregu i Diellit?

Bregu i Diellit takes the slope between Ulpiana to the west and Mati 1 to the east, with Arbënor dhe Astrit Dehari dividing it from the Technical Faculty campus.