مدينة
Berat
The 'city of a thousand windows': an Ottoman hill town under a still-inhabited castle, UNESCO-listed since 2008.
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المحافظات الاثنتا عشرة
Berat
An inland county of vineyards, the Osum canyon and a…
Dibër
Albania's mountain interior on the North Macedonian border…
Durrës
The country's smallest county by area and its main gateway…
Elbasan
A central industrial and agricultural county on the…
Fier
The agricultural and oil-producing plain of the south-west…
Gjirokastër
The southern mountain county of the Drino and Vjosa…
Korçë
A high south-eastern plateau of lakes and orchards, with a…
Kukës
The north-eastern highlands on the Kosovo border, the…
Lezhë
A short northern coast of lagoons and pine, backed by the…
Shkodër
The north-west: the largest lake in southern Europe, the…
Tiranë
The capital county: roughly a third of the country's…
Vlorë
The long southern coast: the Albanian Riviera, the…
المدن الكبرى
الكل 10 →
مدينة
Durrës
Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.
مدينة
Elbasan
A central industrial city inside an Ottoman fortress wall, on the old Via Egnatia.
مدينة
Fier
The service town of the oil and farming plain, next to the ruins of Apollonia.
مدينة
Gjirokastër
The 'stone city': slate-roofed tower houses on a steep slope beneath one of the Balkans' largest castles.
مدينة
Korçë
The highland city of serenades, the first Albanian-language school, and the country's oldest brewery.
مدينة
Sarandë
The Ionian resort town facing Corfu, and the arrival point for most visitors to southern Albania.
مدينة
Shkodër
The cultural capital of the north: a lake, a fortress, a bicycle city and a Catholic heartland.
المدن
الكل 55 →
بلدة
Lezhë
Where the Albanian princes swore their 1444 league, and where Skanderbeg is buried.
بلدة
Krujë
Skanderbeg's mountain stronghold, an old bazaar street, and the national museum of the resistance.
بلدة
Ksamil
Four small islands and very clear shallow water; the most photographed and most crowded stretch of the Albanian coast.
بلدة
Pogradec
A lakeside town on Ohrid, a UNESCO natural and cultural site shared with North Macedonia.
بلدة
Përmet
A small Vjosa-side town known for its fruit preserves, thermal baths and polyphonic singing.
بلدة
Orikum
A marina town at the foot of Llogara, beside the ancient harbour of Oricum.
بلدة
Burrel
The seat of Mat municipality in the central highlands, near the Mat river dams.
بلدة
Peshkopi
The seat of Dibër County, known for thermal springs and the high pastures below Mount Korab.
القرى
الكل 10 →
قرية
Dhërmi
An old white village on the slope above one of the Riviera's longest pebble beaches.
قرية
Vuno
A steep stone village between Dhërmi and Himarë, above Jal and Gjipe.
قرية
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Theth
A glacial valley village in the Albanian Alps: a lock-in tower, a waterfall, and one end of the country's best-known…
قرية
Velipojë
A wide, shallow sand beach at the Buna river mouth, with a protected lagoon reserve.
قرية
Voskopojë
In the 18th century one of the largest towns in the Balkans; today a village of frescoed churches.
قرية
Qeparo
A half-abandoned upper village of stone houses above a quiet shingle bay.
قرية
Valbonë
A wide white riverbed under 2,500 m peaks; the eastern end of the Theth trek.
قرية
Dardhë
A stone village at 1,340 m in the Morava mountains, one of Albania's small ski destinations.
الشواطئ
الكل 26 →
شاطئ
Durrës Beach
A continuous sand strip running south from the city — the busiest beach in Albania by visitor numbers.
شاطئ
Ksamil Beaches
Shallow, very clear water and four low islets a short swim offshore.
شاطئ
Borsh Beach
At roughly 7 km, the longest single beach on the Riviera, backed by one of Albania's largest olive groves.
شاطئ
Dhërmi Beach
A long white pebble shore under the Ceraunian ridge, and the Riviera's main nightlife strip.
شاطئ
Gjipe Beach
A pebble beach at the mouth of a limestone canyon, reachable only on foot or by boat.
شاطئ
Palasë Beach
The first Riviera beach south of the Llogara pass, below the road's most dramatic descent.
شاطئ
Velipojë Beach
A very shallow, wide sand beach at the Buna delta, beside a protected lagoon.
شاطئ
Drymades Beach
The pine-backed northern half of the Dhërmi bay, slightly quieter than the main strip.
الجبال
الكل 5 →
جبل
Mount Tomorr
A 2,416 m massif above Berat, and the site of an annual Bektashi pilgrimage each August.
جبل
Mount Korab
At 2,764 m the highest point in both Albania and North Macedonia, on the border ridge.
جبل
Maja Jezercë
At 2,694 m the highest peak entirely inside the Dinaric Alps, deep in the Albanian Alps.
جبل
Mount Dajti
Tirana's own mountain: 1,613 m, a national park, and a 4.2 km cable car from the city edge.
جبل
Maja e Çikës
The 2,045 m high point of the Ceraunian ridge, directly above the Riviera coast.
سلاسل جبلية
الكل 2 →
سلسلة جبلية
Ceraunian Mountains
The coastal ridge that makes the Riviera: 2,000 m peaks rising directly out of the Ionian.
سلسلة جبلية
The Albanian Alps
The limestone wall of the far north — locally the Accursed Mountains — shared with Montenegro and Kosovo.
الأنهار
الكل 6 →
نهر
The Vjosa
One of the last large free-flowing rivers in Europe, declared a Wild River National Park in March 2023.
نهر
The Shala River
A tributary of the Drin above Koman, reached by boat and often called Albania's Thailand.
نهر
The Shkumbin
The river that splits Albania in two — the historic dividing line between Gheg and Tosk.
نهر
The Drin
Albania's longest river and the backbone of its electricity system, dammed three times in the north.
نهر
The Osum
The river that carved the Osum canyon and runs through the middle of Berat.
نهر
The Buna
The short outflow of Lake Shkodër, and Albania's only navigable river.
البحيرات والبحيرات الساحلية
الكل 7 →
بحيرة
Lake Ohrid
One of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes, UNESCO-listed and home to species found nowhere else.
بحيرة
Lake Prespa
A high tectonic lake where Albania, Greece and North Macedonia meet, draining underground into Ohrid.
بحيرة
Lake Shkodër
The largest lake in southern Europe, shared with Montenegro and a major bird wintering ground.
بحيرة
Karavasta Lagoon
The largest lagoon in Albania and the western Balkans' main breeding site for the Dalmatian pelican.
بحيرة
Narta Lagoon
Albania's second-largest lagoon, with working saltpans and the island monastery of Zvërnec.
بحيرة
Bovilla Reservoir
Tirana's drinking-water reservoir, ringed by limestone cliffs half an hour from the capital.
بحيرة
Lake Koman
A 34 km reservoir in a gorge so narrow the ferry crossing is treated as a scenic journey in its own right.
المتنزهات الوطنية
الكل 11 →
منطقة محمية
Karaburun-Sazan Marine Park
Albania's only marine national park: sea caves, wrecks and the country's clearest water.
منطقة محمية
Llogara National Park
A pine-forested pass at 1,027 m where the road drops from mountain forest to the Ionian in a few kilometres.
منطقة محمية
Butrint National Park
A wetland and forest park wrapped around the archaeological city, on the Vivari channel.
منطقة محمية
Valbona Valley National Park
A broad U-shaped glacial valley of white gravel and beech forest under the Alps' highest peaks.
منطقة محمية
Divjakë-Karavasta National Park
Coastal pine forest, dunes and lagoon protecting the region's Dalmatian pelican colony.
منطقة محمية
Kune-Vain Nature Reserve
Lagoons, pine and one of Albania's few surviving coastal alluvial forests, beside Shëngjin.
منطقة محمية
Theth National Park
The glacial valley park at the heart of the Albanian Alps, merged into a wider protected complex in 2022.
منطقة محمية
Vjosa Wild River National Park
Declared in March 2023, Europe's first national park built around a whole free-flowing river system.
ينابيع
الكل 2 →
ينبوع
The Blue Eye
A karst spring of extraordinary clarity whose bottom has never been definitively reached.
ينبوع
Bënjë Thermal Springs
Sulphur pools beside the Ottoman Katiu bridge, at the mouth of the Lengarica canyon.
أودية
الكل 2 →
وادٍ
Osum Canyon
A 26 km limestone gorge up to 80 m deep, run by raft in spring and walked in late summer.
وادٍ
Gjipe Canyon
A narrow limestone slot that meets the sea at Gjipe beach — the Riviera's one true canyon.
شلالات
الكل 2 →
شلال
Bogovë Waterfall
A cold spring-fed fall and pool in the Tomorr foothills near Berat.
شلال
Grunas Waterfall
A 25–30 m fall in the Theth valley, and a declared natural monument.
المواقع التاريخية والأثرية
الكل 28 →
موقع تاريخي
Albania's Bunkers
Roughly 170,000 concrete pillboxes built under Enver Hoxha — the most visible physical legacy of the communist state.
موقع تاريخي
Antigonea
A short-lived Epirote city founded by King Pyrrhus and burned by Rome in 167 BC.
موقع تاريخي
Apollonia
A Corinthian colony that became a Roman university town — Octavian was studying here when Caesar was killed.
موقع تاريخي
Ardenica Monastery
A hilltop monastery on the Myzeqe plain where, by tradition, Skanderbeg was married in 1451.
موقع تاريخي
Berat Castle
A fortress people still live inside, holding some twenty churches and the Onufri icon museum.
موقع تاريخي
Butrint
A Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman city layered on one wooded peninsula — Albania's first UNESCO site.
موقع تاريخي
Byllis
The largest Illyrian city yet excavated, on a plateau above the Vjosa with five early Christian basilicas.
موقع تاريخي
Durrës Amphitheatre
The largest Roman amphitheatre in the Balkans, found by accident in 1966 under the modern city.
المطارات
الكل 3 →
مطار
Tirana International Airport
Albania's principal airport, 17 km north-west of Tirana — for years the country's only functioning civil airport.
مطار
Kukës International Airport
A small northern airport that opened to commercial flights in 2021, mainly serving the diaspora.
مطار
Vlora International Airport
A new airport under construction on the Narta lagoon edge, intended to serve the southern coast.
الموانئ
الكل 4 →
ميناء
Port of Durrës
The country's main commercial and passenger port, handling the large majority of Albanian seaborne trade.
ميناء
Port of Vlorë
Albania's second passenger port, with a seasonal fast link to Brindisi.
ميناء
Port of Shëngjin
A small northern cargo port beside the resort beach.
ميناء
Port of Sarandë
A small passenger port whose Corfu crossings are the busiest sea route into southern Albania.