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