Localidad
Fushë-Arrëz
A small timber and mining town in the northern highlands.
Explorar
Lugares
Todos los lugares del Atlas. Filtra por tipo, por county o por tema.
naturecoastbeachheritagemountainsrivieraborderparkcastleindustrycountyriverunescoalpsmininglakeagriculturehikingporthistorybirdssandresortlagoon
Cascada
Grunas Waterfall
A 25–30 m fall in the Theth valley, and a declared natural monument.
Localidad
Koplik
The seat of Malësi e Madhe, at the foot of the Alps near the Montenegrin border.
Lago
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
Lake Shkodër
The largest lake in southern Europe, shared with Montenegro and a major bird wintering ground.
Montaña
Maja Jezercë
At 2,694 m the highest peak entirely inside the Dinaric Alps, deep in the Albanian Alps.
Sitio histórico
Marubi National Museum of Photography
The archive of the Balkans' oldest photographic studio — about 500,000 negatives from 1858 onward.
Sitio histórico
Mesi Bridge
A 108 m, thirteen-arch packhorse bridge over the Kir north-east of Shkodër.
Localidad
Pukë
A forested highland town on the old road north, at about 830 m.
Sitio histórico
Rozafa Castle
The rock fortress above the meeting of three rivers, and the setting of Albania's best-known legend.
Ciudad
Shkodër
The cultural capital of the north: a lake, a fortress, a bicycle city and a Catholic heartland.
Cordillera
The Albanian Alps
The limestone wall of the far north — locally the Accursed Mountains — shared with Montenegro and Kosovo.
Río
The Buna
The short outflow of Lake Shkodër, and Albania's only navigable river.
Río
The Drin
Albania's longest river and the backbone of its electricity system, dammed three times in the north.
Río
The Shala River
A tributary of the Drin above Koman, reached by boat and often called Albania's Thailand.
Pueblo
![Title: A chief of Thethi, Tribe of Shale [i.e. Shala], Albania Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print.](/static/img/thumbs/theth-4.jpg)
Theth
A glacial valley village in the Albanian Alps: a lock-in tower, a waterfall, and one end of the country's best-known…
Área protegida
Theth National Park
The glacial valley park at the heart of the Albanian Alps, merged into a wider protected complex in 2022.
Localidad
Vau i Dejës
The town beside the lowest dam of the Drin cascade, east of Shkodër.
Pueblo
Velipojë
A wide, shallow sand beach at the Buna river mouth, with a protected lagoon reserve.
Playa
Velipojë Beach
A very shallow, wide sand beach at the Buna delta, beside a protected lagoon.