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