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Big ferries cross overnight between Durrës and Bari in Italy, carrying cars, lorries and passengers. The trip takes about eight or nine hours and many people sleep on board.

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Big ferries cross overnight between Durrës and Bari in Italy, carrying cars, lorries and passengers. The trip takes about eight or nine hours and many people sleep on board.

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Durrës

Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.

DurrësiDurres
Port

Port of Durrës

The country's main commercial and passenger port, handling the large majority of Albanian seaborne trade.

Durres

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City

Durrës

Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.

DurrësiDurres
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The Albanian Diaspora

More Albanians may live outside the country than in it — chiefly in Italy, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, the UK and…

Port

Port of Durrës

The country's main commercial and passenger port, handling the large majority of Albanian seaborne trade.

Durres
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Getting to Albania

One main airport, four ferry corridors, and four land borders that all behave differently.

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