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"Ringjallja e Krishtit" Orthodox Cathedral in Korce, Albania, was built with Greek money in 1995, replacing a church destroyed by the Communists.
"Ringjallja e Krishtit" Orthodox Cathedral in Korce, Albania, was built with Greek money in 1995, replacing a church destroyed by the Communists. · David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Korçë County

City · Korçë

Korçë

The highland city of serenades, the first Albanian-language school, and the country's oldest brewery.

Lake · Korçë

Lake Prespa

A high tectonic lake where Albania, Greece and North Macedonia meet, draining underground into Ohrid.

Historic site · Korçë

The Churches of Voskopojë

Six surviving basilicas of a town that once rivalled any city in the Balkans, covered inside with frescoes.

Lake · Korçë

Lake Ohrid

One of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes, UNESCO-listed and home to species found nowhere else.

Town · Korçë

Bilisht

The seat of Devoll municipality, on the Greek border in an apple-growing plain.

Town · Korçë

Ersekë

The highest town in Albania, seat of Kolonjë municipality below Mount Gramos.

Town · Korçë

Pogradec

A lakeside town on Ohrid, a UNESCO natural and cultural site shared with North Macedonia.

Village · Korçë

Voskopojë

In the 18th century one of the largest towns in the Balkans; today a village of frescoed churches.

Village · Korçë

Dardhë

A stone village at 1,340 m in the Morava mountains, one of Albania's small ski destinations.

Village · Korçë

Lin

A peninsula village on Lake Ohrid with a 6th-century basilica floor mosaic and a prehistoric pile settlement.

Town · Korçë

Pustec

A lakeside municipality on Lake Prespa with a recognised Macedonian minority.

Protected area · Korçë

Prespa National Park

The Albanian share of a three-country park around the Great and Small Prespa lakes.

Town · Korçë

Maliq

A town on a drained marsh plain, built around a sugar refinery in the 1950s.

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