
On February 4, 2018, Albanians witnessed a funeral procession for the bridge of the villages of Lliar-Hoshtevë, now immortalized in the popular elegy titled, "The teardrop turned into a river," by Kristaq Shabani.
As one of the symbols of Zagoria, the Hoshteva Bridge and others nearby were built by Ali Pasha, as a debt he owed to the Zagorites who sheltered him in the mountains when they were pursuing him to kill him, before he became the great pasha we all know today.
Residents' calls and announcements over the years about the bridge's degradation fell on deaf ears, so much so that the bridge tragically collapsed in 2018, ironically after the former minister of culture and MP for the area, Mirela Kumbaro, a month before the event, guaranteed its restoration and according to the experts she sent, "nothing would find the bridge" during that winter.
Watch the full documentary about amphora in the video below.