City · Korçë
Korçë
The highland city of serenades, the first Albanian-language school, and the country's oldest brewery.
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Places
City · Korçë
The highland city of serenades, the first Albanian-language school, and the country's oldest brewery.
Lake · Korçë
A high tectonic lake where Albania, Greece and North Macedonia meet, draining underground into Ohrid.
Historic site · Korçë
Six surviving basilicas of a town that once rivalled any city in the Balkans, covered inside with frescoes.
Lake · Korçë
One of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes, UNESCO-listed and home to species found nowhere else.
Town · Korçë
The seat of Devoll municipality, on the Greek border in an apple-growing plain.
Town · Korçë
A lakeside town on Ohrid, a UNESCO natural and cultural site shared with North Macedonia.
Village · Korçë
In the 18th century one of the largest towns in the Balkans; today a village of frescoed churches.
Village · Korçë
A stone village at 1,340 m in the Morava mountains, one of Albania's small ski destinations.
Village · Korçë
A peninsula village on Lake Ohrid with a 6th-century basilica floor mosaic and a prehistoric pile settlement.
Protected area · Korçë
The Albanian share of a three-country park around the Great and Small Prespa lakes.