Stad · Berat
Berat
The 'city of a thousand windows': an Ottoman hill town under a still-inhabited castle, UNESCO-listed since 2008.
Steden
Van de hoofdstad Tirana tot de Ottomaanse stenen steden Berat en Gjirokastër en de oude havens van Durrës en Vlorë.
Stad · Gjirokastër
Gjirokastër
The 'stone city': slate-roofed tower houses on a steep slope beneath one of the Balkans' largest castles.
Stad · Tiranë
Tirana
The capital: a fast-changing city of painted blocks, Ottoman survivals and new towers, under Mount Dajti.
Stad · Shkodër
Shkodër
The cultural capital of the north: a lake, a fortress, a bicycle city and a Catholic heartland.
Stad · Vlorë
Sarandë
The Ionian resort town facing Corfu, and the arrival point for most visitors to southern Albania.
Stad · Vlorë
Vlorë
Where the Adriatic meets the Ionian, and where Albanian independence was declared in 1912.
Stad · Durrës
Durrës
Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.
Stad · Korçë
Korçë
The highland city of serenades, the first Albanian-language school, and the country's oldest brewery.
Stranden
De kiezelbaaien en eilandjes van de Ionische Rivièra en de lange zandstranden van de Adriatische Zee.
Strand · Vlorë
Gjipe Beach
A pebble beach at the mouth of a limestone canyon, reachable only on foot or by boat.
Strand · Vlorë
Dhërmi Beach
A long white pebble shore under the Ceraunian ridge, and the Riviera's main nightlife strip.
Strand · Vlorë
Grama Bay
A remote bay on the Karaburun peninsula whose cliffs carry Greek and Latin inscriptions cut by ancient sailors.
Strand · Vlorë
Drymades Beach
The pine-backed northern half of the Dhërmi bay, slightly quieter than the main strip.
Strand · Vlorë
Borsh Beach
At roughly 7 km, the longest single beach on the Riviera, backed by one of Albania's largest olive groves.
Strand · Vlorë
Palasë Beach
The first Riviera beach south of the Llogara pass, below the road's most dramatic descent.
Strand · Vlorë
Lukovë and Bunec
A run of small coves — Bunec, Krorëz and Shpella — below the village of Lukovë.
Bergen
De Albanese Alpen in het noorden, de Korab aan de oostgrens, de Tomorr boven Berat en de Ceraunische kam boven de Rivièra.
Bergketen · Shkodër
The Albanian Alps
The limestone wall of the far north — locally the Accursed Mountains — shared with Montenegro and Kosovo.
Berg · Shkodër
Maja Jezercë
At 2,694 m the highest peak entirely inside the Dinaric Alps, deep in the Albanian Alps.
Berg · Dibër
Mount Korab
At 2,764 m the highest point in both Albania and North Macedonia, on the border ridge.
Bergketen · Vlorë
Ceraunian Mountains
The coastal ridge that makes the Riviera: 2,000 m peaks rising directly out of the Ionian.
Berg · Berat
Mount Tomorr
A 2,416 m massif above Berat, and the site of an annual Bektashi pilgrimage each August.
Berg · Vlorë
Maja e Çikës
The 2,045 m high point of the Ceraunian ridge, directly above the Riviera coast.
Berg · Tiranë
Mount Dajti
Tirana's own mountain: 1,613 m, a national park, and a 4.2 km cable car from the city edge.
Historische locaties
Illyrische heuvelsteden, Griekse en Romeinse steden, Ottomaanse burchten en de bunkers uit de communistische jaren.
Historische site · Vlorë
Butrint
A Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman city layered on one wooded peninsula — Albania's first UNESCO site.
Historische site · Berat
Berat Castle
A fortress people still live inside, holding some twenty churches and the Onufri icon museum.
Historische site · Gjirokastër
Gjirokastër Castle
One of the largest castles in the Balkans, holding an artillery gallery and a captured US aircraft.
Historische site · Fier
Apollonia
A Corinthian colony that became a Roman university town — Octavian was studying here when Caesar was killed.
Historische site · Shkodër
Rozafa Castle
The rock fortress above the meeting of three rivers, and the setting of Albania's best-known legend.
Historische site · Durrës
Krujë Castle
Skanderbeg's base, which held out against three Ottoman sieges and now houses the national museum of the resistance.
Historische site · Durrës
Durrës Amphitheatre
The largest Roman amphitheatre in the Balkans, found by accident in 1966 under the modern city.
Historische site · Fier
Byllis
The largest Illyrian city yet excavated, on a plateau above the Vjosa with five early Christian basilicas.
Nationale parken
Alpendalen, kustlagunes, oude beukenbossen en het enige zeepark van het land.
Beschermd gebied · Kukës
Valbona Valley National Park
A broad U-shaped glacial valley of white gravel and beech forest under the Alps' highest peaks.
Beschermd gebied · Shkodër
Theth National Park
The glacial valley park at the heart of the Albanian Alps, merged into a wider protected complex in 2022.
Beschermd gebied · 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.
Beschermd gebied · Vlorë
Butrint National Park
A wetland and forest park wrapped around the archaeological city, on the Vivari channel.
Beschermd gebied · Vlorë
Karaburun-Sazan Marine Park
Albania's only marine national park: sea caves, wrecks and the country's clearest water.
Beschermd gebied · Gjirokastër
Vjosa Wild River National Park
Declared in March 2023, Europe's first national park built around a whole free-flowing river system.
Beschermd gebied · Fier
Divjakë-Karavasta National Park
Coastal pine forest, dunes and lagoon protecting the region's Dalmatian pelican colony.
Beschermd gebied · Elbasan
Shebenik-Jabllanicë National Park
Old-growth beech forest on the North Macedonian border, part of a UNESCO-listed primeval forest network.
Meren en lagunes
Ohrid, Prespa en Shkodër op de grenzen, de kloofmeren van de Drin en de lagunes aan de kust.
Meer · 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.
Meer · Korçë
Lake Ohrid
One of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes, UNESCO-listed and home to species found nowhere else.
Meer · Shkodër
Lake Shkodër
The largest lake in southern Europe, shared with Montenegro and a major bird wintering ground.
Meer · Korçë
Lake Prespa
A high tectonic lake where Albania, Greece and North Macedonia meet, draining underground into Ohrid.
Meer · Fier
Karavasta Lagoon
The largest lagoon in Albania and the western Balkans' main breeding site for the Dalmatian pelican.
Meer · Vlorë
Narta Lagoon
Albania's second-largest lagoon, with working saltpans and the island monastery of Zvërnec.
Meer · Tiranë
Bovilla Reservoir
Tirana's drinking-water reservoir, ringed by limestone cliffs half an hour from the capital.
Rivieren
De Vjosa, een van de laatste wilde rivieren van Europa, en de Shala, Osum, Drin, Shkumbin en Buna.
Rivier · Gjirokastër
The Vjosa
One of the last large free-flowing rivers in Europe, declared a Wild River National Park in March 2023.
Rivier · Shkodër
The Shala River
A tributary of the Drin above Koman, reached by boat and often called Albania's Thailand.
Rivier · Shkodër
The Drin
Albania's longest river and the backbone of its electricity system, dammed three times in the north.
Rivier · Elbasan
The Shkumbin
The river that splits Albania in two — the historic dividing line between Gheg and Tosk.
Dorpen
Stenen dorpen in de Alpen, boven de Rivièra en in de heuvels van het zuidoosten.
Dorp · 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.
Dorp · Vlorë
Dhërmi
An old white village on the slope above one of the Riviera's longest pebble beaches.
Dorp · Korçë
Voskopojë
In the 18th century one of the largest towns in the Balkans; today a village of frescoed churches.
Dorp · Korçë
Dardhë
A stone village at 1,340 m in the Morava mountains, one of Albania's small ski destinations.
Dorp · Korçë
Lin
A peninsula village on Lake Ohrid with a 6th-century basilica floor mosaic and a prehistoric pile settlement.
Kleine steden
Marktstadjes, bergplaatsen en badplaatsen, van Krujë en Himarë tot de kleine stadjes in het binnenland.
Plaats · Durrës
Krujë
Skanderbeg's mountain stronghold, an old bazaar street, and the national museum of the resistance.
Plaats · Vlorë
Himarë
The centre of the Riviera coast: a Greek-speaking historical community, an old hill village and a string of coves.
Plaats · Vlorë
Ksamil
Four small islands and very clear shallow water; the most photographed and most crowded stretch of the Albanian coast.
Plaats · Gjirokastër
Përmet
A small Vjosa-side town known for its fruit preserves, thermal baths and polyphonic singing.
Plaats · Korçë
Pogradec
A lakeside town on Ohrid, a UNESCO natural and cultural site shared with North Macedonia.
Plaats · Lezhë
Lezhë
Where the Albanian princes swore their 1444 league, and where Skanderbeg is buried.
Plaats · Gjirokastër
Libohovë
A hill town below a castle built by Ali Pasha for his sister, opposite Gjirokastër.
Kloven, watervallen en bronnen
De kloven van de Osum en Gjipe, de watervallen van de Alpen en de bron het Blauwe Oog.
Bron · 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.
Bron · Gjirokastër
Bënjë Thermal Springs
Sulphur pools beside the Ottoman Katiu bridge, at the mouth of the Lengarica canyon.
Waterval · Shkodër
Grunas Waterfall
A 25–30 m fall in the Theth valley, and a declared natural monument.
Waterval · Berat
Bogovë Waterfall
A cold spring-fed fall and pool in the Tomorr foothills near Berat.
Blader per county
Albanië is verdeeld in twaalf provincies, elk vernoemd naar de hoofdplaats. Kies er een op de kaart of uit de lijst.
Grenzen: geoBoundaries gbOpen ALB ADM1 (publiek domein)
