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