Città · Berat
Berat
The 'city of a thousand windows': an Ottoman hill town under a still-inhabited castle, UNESCO-listed since 2008.
Città
Dalla capitale, Tirana, alle città ottomane di pietra di Berat e Gjirokastër e agli antichi porti di Durrës e Vlorë.
Città · Gjirokastër
Gjirokastër
The 'stone city': slate-roofed tower houses on a steep slope beneath one of the Balkans' largest castles.
Città · Tiranë
Tirana
The capital: a fast-changing city of painted blocks, Ottoman survivals and new towers, under Mount Dajti.
Città · Shkodër
Shkodër
The cultural capital of the north: a lake, a fortress, a bicycle city and a Catholic heartland.
Città · Vlorë
Sarandë
The Ionian resort town facing Corfu, and the arrival point for most visitors to southern Albania.
Città · Vlorë
Vlorë
Where the Adriatic meets the Ionian, and where Albanian independence was declared in 1912.
Città · Durrës
Durrës
Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.
Città · Korçë
Korçë
The highland city of serenades, the first Albanian-language school, and the country's oldest brewery.
Spiagge
Le calette di ciottoli e gli isolotti della Riviera ionica e le lunghe spiagge sabbiose dell'Adriatico.
Spiaggia · Vlorë
Ksamil Beaches
Shallow, very clear water and four low islets a short swim offshore.
Spiaggia · Vlorë
Gjipe Beach
A pebble beach at the mouth of a limestone canyon, reachable only on foot or by boat.
Spiaggia · Vlorë
Dhërmi Beach
A long white pebble shore under the Ceraunian ridge, and the Riviera's main nightlife strip.
Spiaggia · Vlorë
Grama Bay
A remote bay on the Karaburun peninsula whose cliffs carry Greek and Latin inscriptions cut by ancient sailors.
Spiaggia · Vlorë
Drymades Beach
The pine-backed northern half of the Dhërmi bay, slightly quieter than the main strip.
Spiaggia · Vlorë
Borsh Beach
At roughly 7 km, the longest single beach on the Riviera, backed by one of Albania's largest olive groves.
Spiaggia · Vlorë
Palasë Beach
The first Riviera beach south of the Llogara pass, below the road's most dramatic descent.
Spiaggia · Vlorë
Lukovë and Bunec
A run of small coves — Bunec, Krorëz and Shpella — below the village of Lukovë.
Montagne
Le Alpi albanesi a nord, il monte Korab sul confine orientale, il Tomorr sopra Berat e la cresta dei Cerauni sopra la Riviera.
Catena montuosa · Shkodër
The Albanian Alps
The limestone wall of the far north — locally the Accursed Mountains — shared with Montenegro and Kosovo.
Montagna · Shkodër
Maja Jezercë
At 2,694 m the highest peak entirely inside the Dinaric Alps, deep in the Albanian Alps.
Montagna · Dibër
Mount Korab
At 2,764 m the highest point in both Albania and North Macedonia, on the border ridge.
Catena montuosa · Vlorë
Ceraunian Mountains
The coastal ridge that makes the Riviera: 2,000 m peaks rising directly out of the Ionian.
Montagna · Berat
Mount Tomorr
A 2,416 m massif above Berat, and the site of an annual Bektashi pilgrimage each August.
Montagna · Vlorë
Maja e Çikës
The 2,045 m high point of the Ceraunian ridge, directly above the Riviera coast.
Montagna · Tiranë
Mount Dajti
Tirana's own mountain: 1,613 m, a national park, and a 4.2 km cable car from the city edge.
Siti storici
Città illiriche sulle colline, città greche e romane, castelli ottomani e i bunker degli anni comunisti.
Sito storico · Vlorë
Butrint
A Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman city layered on one wooded peninsula — Albania's first UNESCO site.
Sito storico · Berat
Berat Castle
A fortress people still live inside, holding some twenty churches and the Onufri icon museum.
Sito storico · Gjirokastër
Gjirokastër Castle
One of the largest castles in the Balkans, holding an artillery gallery and a captured US aircraft.
Sito storico · Fier
Apollonia
A Corinthian colony that became a Roman university town — Octavian was studying here when Caesar was killed.
Sito storico · Shkodër
Rozafa Castle
The rock fortress above the meeting of three rivers, and the setting of Albania's best-known legend.
Sito storico · Durrës
Krujë Castle
Skanderbeg's base, which held out against three Ottoman sieges and now houses the national museum of the resistance.
Sito storico · Durrës
Durrës Amphitheatre
The largest Roman amphitheatre in the Balkans, found by accident in 1966 under the modern city.
Sito storico · Fier
Byllis
The largest Illyrian city yet excavated, on a plateau above the Vjosa with five early Christian basilicas.
Parchi nazionali
Valli alpine, lagune costiere, antiche faggete e l'unico parco marino del paese.
Area protetta · Kukës
Valbona Valley National Park
A broad U-shaped glacial valley of white gravel and beech forest under the Alps' highest peaks.
Area protetta · Shkodër
Theth National Park
The glacial valley park at the heart of the Albanian Alps, merged into a wider protected complex in 2022.
Area protetta · Vlorë
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.
Area protetta · Vlorë
Butrint National Park
A wetland and forest park wrapped around the archaeological city, on the Vivari channel.
Area protetta · Vlorë
Karaburun-Sazan Marine Park
Albania's only marine national park: sea caves, wrecks and the country's clearest water.
Area protetta · Gjirokastër
Vjosa Wild River National Park
Declared in March 2023, Europe's first national park built around a whole free-flowing river system.
Area protetta · Fier
Divjakë-Karavasta National Park
Coastal pine forest, dunes and lagoon protecting the region's Dalmatian pelican colony.
Area protetta · Elbasan
Shebenik-Jabllanicë National Park
Old-growth beech forest on the North Macedonian border, part of a UNESCO-listed primeval forest network.
Laghi e lagune
Ohrid, Prespa e Shkodër sui confini, i laghi in gola del Drin e le lagune della costa.
Lago · Shkodër
Lake Koman
A 34 km reservoir in a gorge so narrow the ferry crossing is treated as a scenic journey in its own right.
Lago · Korçë
Lake Ohrid
One of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes, UNESCO-listed and home to species found nowhere else.
Lago · Shkodër
Lake Shkodër
The largest lake in southern Europe, shared with Montenegro and a major bird wintering ground.
Lago · Korçë
Lake Prespa
A high tectonic lake where Albania, Greece and North Macedonia meet, draining underground into Ohrid.
Lago · Fier
Karavasta Lagoon
The largest lagoon in Albania and the western Balkans' main breeding site for the Dalmatian pelican.
Lago · Vlorë
Narta Lagoon
Albania's second-largest lagoon, with working saltpans and the island monastery of Zvërnec.
Lago · Tiranë
Bovilla Reservoir
Tirana's drinking-water reservoir, ringed by limestone cliffs half an hour from the capital.
Fiumi
La Vjosa, uno degli ultimi fiumi selvaggi d'Europa, e lo Shala, l'Osum, il Drin, lo Shkumbin e la Buna.
Fiume · Gjirokastër
The Vjosa
One of the last large free-flowing rivers in Europe, declared a Wild River National Park in March 2023.
Fiume · Shkodër
The Shala River
A tributary of the Drin above Koman, reached by boat and often called Albania's Thailand.
Fiume · Shkodër
The Drin
Albania's longest river and the backbone of its electricity system, dammed three times in the north.
Fiume · Elbasan
The Shkumbin
The river that splits Albania in two — the historic dividing line between Gheg and Tosk.
Villaggi
Villaggi di pietra nelle Alpi, sopra la Riviera e sulle colline del sud-est.
Villaggio · Shkodër
Theth
A glacial valley village in the Albanian Alps: a lock-in tower, a waterfall, and one end of the country's best-known trek.
Villaggio · Kukës
Valbonë
A wide white riverbed under 2,500 m peaks; the eastern end of the Theth trek.
Villaggio · Vlorë
Dhërmi
An old white village on the slope above one of the Riviera's longest pebble beaches.
Villaggio · Korçë
Voskopojë
In the 18th century one of the largest towns in the Balkans; today a village of frescoed churches.
Villaggio · Korçë
Dardhë
A stone village at 1,340 m in the Morava mountains, one of Albania's small ski destinations.
Villaggio · Korçë
Lin
A peninsula village on Lake Ohrid with a 6th-century basilica floor mosaic and a prehistoric pile settlement.
Cittadine
Borghi di mercato, centri di montagna e località balneari, da Krujë e Himarë alle piccole città dell'entroterra.
Città di medie dimensioni · Durrës
Krujë
Skanderbeg's mountain stronghold, an old bazaar street, and the national museum of the resistance.
Città di medie dimensioni · Vlorë
Himarë
The centre of the Riviera coast: a Greek-speaking historical community, an old hill village and a string of coves.
Città di medie dimensioni · Vlorë
Ksamil
Four small islands and very clear shallow water; the most photographed and most crowded stretch of the Albanian coast.
Città di medie dimensioni · Gjirokastër
Përmet
A small Vjosa-side town known for its fruit preserves, thermal baths and polyphonic singing.
Città di medie dimensioni · Korçë
Pogradec
A lakeside town on Ohrid, a UNESCO natural and cultural site shared with North Macedonia.
Città di medie dimensioni · Lezhë
Lezhë
Where the Albanian princes swore their 1444 league, and where Skanderbeg is buried.
Città di medie dimensioni · Gjirokastër
Tepelenë
Ali Pasha's birthplace, at the confluence of the Vjosa and the Drino.
Città di medie dimensioni · Gjirokastër
Libohovë
A hill town below a castle built by Ali Pasha for his sister, opposite Gjirokastër.
Canyon, cascate e sorgenti
I canyon dell'Osum e di Gjipe, le cascate delle Alpi e la sorgente dell'Occhio Blu.
Sorgente · Vlorë
The Blue Eye
A karst spring of extraordinary clarity whose bottom has never been definitively reached.
Canyon · Berat
Osum Canyon
A 26 km limestone gorge up to 80 m deep, run by raft in spring and walked in late summer.
Canyon · Vlorë
Gjipe Canyon
A narrow limestone slot that meets the sea at Gjipe beach — the Riviera's one true canyon.
Sorgente · Gjirokastër
Bënjë Thermal Springs
Sulphur pools beside the Ottoman Katiu bridge, at the mouth of the Lengarica canyon.
Cascata · Shkodër
Grunas Waterfall
A 25–30 m fall in the Theth valley, and a declared natural monument.
Cascata · Berat
Bogovë Waterfall
A cold spring-fed fall and pool in the Tomorr foothills near Berat.
Sfoglia per contea
L'Albania è divisa in dodici contee, ognuna con il nome della sua città principale. Scegline una sulla mappa o dall'elenco.
Confini: geoBoundaries gbOpen ALB ADM1 (pubblico dominio)
