Cidade · Berat
Berat
The 'city of a thousand windows': an Ottoman hill town under a still-inhabited castle, UNESCO-listed since 2008.
Cidades
Da capital, Tirana, às cidades otomanas de pedra de Berat e Gjirokastër e aos antigos portos de Durrës e Vlorë.
Cidade · Gjirokastër
Gjirokastër
The 'stone city': slate-roofed tower houses on a steep slope beneath one of the Balkans' largest castles.
Cidade · Tiranë
Tirana
The capital: a fast-changing city of painted blocks, Ottoman survivals and new towers, under Mount Dajti.
Cidade · Shkodër
Shkodër
The cultural capital of the north: a lake, a fortress, a bicycle city and a Catholic heartland.
Cidade · Vlorë
Sarandë
The Ionian resort town facing Corfu, and the arrival point for most visitors to southern Albania.
Cidade · Vlorë
Vlorë
Where the Adriatic meets the Ionian, and where Albanian independence was declared in 1912.
Cidade · Durrës
Durrës
Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.
Cidade · Korçë
Korçë
The highland city of serenades, the first Albanian-language school, and the country's oldest brewery.
Praias
As enseadas de seixos e as ilhotas da Riviera jónica e as longas praias de areia do Adriático.
Praia · Vlorë
Gjipe Beach
A pebble beach at the mouth of a limestone canyon, reachable only on foot or by boat.
Praia · Vlorë
Dhërmi Beach
A long white pebble shore under the Ceraunian ridge, and the Riviera's main nightlife strip.
Praia · Vlorë
Grama Bay
A remote bay on the Karaburun peninsula whose cliffs carry Greek and Latin inscriptions cut by ancient sailors.
Praia · Vlorë
Drymades Beach
The pine-backed northern half of the Dhërmi bay, slightly quieter than the main strip.
Praia · Vlorë
Borsh Beach
At roughly 7 km, the longest single beach on the Riviera, backed by one of Albania's largest olive groves.
Praia · Vlorë
Palasë Beach
The first Riviera beach south of the Llogara pass, below the road's most dramatic descent.
Praia · Vlorë
Lukovë and Bunec
A run of small coves — Bunec, Krorëz and Shpella — below the village of Lukovë.
Montanhas
Os Alpes Albaneses no norte, o monte Korab na fronteira oriental, o Tomorr acima de Berat e a cordilheira Ceráunia sobre a Riviera.
Cordilheira · Shkodër
The Albanian Alps
The limestone wall of the far north — locally the Accursed Mountains — shared with Montenegro and Kosovo.
Montanha · Shkodër
Maja Jezercë
At 2,694 m the highest peak entirely inside the Dinaric Alps, deep in the Albanian Alps.
Montanha · Dibër
Mount Korab
At 2,764 m the highest point in both Albania and North Macedonia, on the border ridge.
Cordilheira · Vlorë
Ceraunian Mountains
The coastal ridge that makes the Riviera: 2,000 m peaks rising directly out of the Ionian.
Montanha · Berat
Mount Tomorr
A 2,416 m massif above Berat, and the site of an annual Bektashi pilgrimage each August.
Montanha · Vlorë
Maja e Çikës
The 2,045 m high point of the Ceraunian ridge, directly above the Riviera coast.
Montanha · Tiranë
Mount Dajti
Tirana's own mountain: 1,613 m, a national park, and a 4.2 km cable car from the city edge.
Sítios históricos
Cidades ilírias nas colinas, cidades gregas e romanas, castelos otomanos e os bunkers dos anos comunistas.
Sítio histórico · Vlorë
Butrint
A Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman city layered on one wooded peninsula — Albania's first UNESCO site.
Sítio histórico · Berat
Berat Castle
A fortress people still live inside, holding some twenty churches and the Onufri icon museum.
Sítio histórico · Gjirokastër
Gjirokastër Castle
One of the largest castles in the Balkans, holding an artillery gallery and a captured US aircraft.
Sítio histórico · Fier
Apollonia
A Corinthian colony that became a Roman university town — Octavian was studying here when Caesar was killed.
Sítio histórico · Shkodër
Rozafa Castle
The rock fortress above the meeting of three rivers, and the setting of Albania's best-known legend.
Sítio histórico · Durrës
Krujë Castle
Skanderbeg's base, which held out against three Ottoman sieges and now houses the national museum of the resistance.
Sítio histórico · Durrës
Durrës Amphitheatre
The largest Roman amphitheatre in the Balkans, found by accident in 1966 under the modern city.
Sítio histórico · Fier
Byllis
The largest Illyrian city yet excavated, on a plateau above the Vjosa with five early Christian basilicas.
Parques nacionais
Vales alpinos, lagoas costeiras, antigas florestas de faias e o único parque marinho do país.
Área protegida · Kukës
Valbona Valley National Park
A broad U-shaped glacial valley of white gravel and beech forest under the Alps' highest peaks.
Área protegida · Shkodër
Theth National Park
The glacial valley park at the heart of the Albanian Alps, merged into a wider protected complex in 2022.
Área protegida · 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.
Área protegida · Vlorë
Butrint National Park
A wetland and forest park wrapped around the archaeological city, on the Vivari channel.
Área protegida · Vlorë
Karaburun-Sazan Marine Park
Albania's only marine national park: sea caves, wrecks and the country's clearest water.
Área protegida · Gjirokastër
Vjosa Wild River National Park
Declared in March 2023, Europe's first national park built around a whole free-flowing river system.
Área protegida · Fier
Divjakë-Karavasta National Park
Coastal pine forest, dunes and lagoon protecting the region's Dalmatian pelican colony.
Área protegida · Elbasan
Shebenik-Jabllanicë National Park
Old-growth beech forest on the North Macedonian border, part of a UNESCO-listed primeval forest network.
Lagos e lagoas
Ohrid, Prespa e Shkodër nas fronteiras, os lagos em desfiladeiro do Drin e as lagoas da 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.
Rios
O Vjosa, um dos últimos rios selvagens da Europa, e o Shala, o Osum, o Drin, o Shkumbin e o Buna.
Rio · Gjirokastër
The Vjosa
One of the last large free-flowing rivers in Europe, declared a Wild River National Park in March 2023.
Rio · Shkodër
The Shala River
A tributary of the Drin above Koman, reached by boat and often called Albania's Thailand.
Rio · Shkodër
The Drin
Albania's longest river and the backbone of its electricity system, dammed three times in the north.
Rio · Elbasan
The Shkumbin
The river that splits Albania in two — the historic dividing line between Gheg and Tosk.
Aldeias
Aldeias de pedra nos Alpes, acima da Riviera e nas colinas do sudeste.
Aldeia · 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.
Aldeia · Kukës
Valbonë
A wide white riverbed under 2,500 m peaks; the eastern end of the Theth trek.
Aldeia · Vlorë
Dhërmi
An old white village on the slope above one of the Riviera's longest pebble beaches.
Aldeia · Korçë
Voskopojë
In the 18th century one of the largest towns in the Balkans; today a village of frescoed churches.
Aldeia · Korçë
Dardhë
A stone village at 1,340 m in the Morava mountains, one of Albania's small ski destinations.
Aldeia · Korçë
Lin
A peninsula village on Lake Ohrid with a 6th-century basilica floor mosaic and a prehistoric pile settlement.
Vilas
Vilas de mercado, sedes de montanha e estâncias balneares, de Krujë e Himarë às pequenas cidades do interior.
Vila · Durrës
Krujë
Skanderbeg's mountain stronghold, an old bazaar street, and the national museum of the resistance.
Vila · Vlorë
Himarë
The centre of the Riviera coast: a Greek-speaking historical community, an old hill village and a string of coves.
Vila · Vlorë
Ksamil
Four small islands and very clear shallow water; the most photographed and most crowded stretch of the Albanian coast.
Vila · Gjirokastër
Përmet
A small Vjosa-side town known for its fruit preserves, thermal baths and polyphonic singing.
Vila · Korçë
Pogradec
A lakeside town on Ohrid, a UNESCO natural and cultural site shared with North Macedonia.
Vila · Lezhë
Lezhë
Where the Albanian princes swore their 1444 league, and where Skanderbeg is buried.
Vila · Gjirokastër
Libohovë
A hill town below a castle built by Ali Pasha for his sister, opposite Gjirokastër.
Desfiladeiros, cascatas e nascentes
Os desfiladeiros do Osum e de Gjipe, as cascatas dos Alpes e a nascente do Olho Azul.
Nascente · 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.
Nascente · 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.
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