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Berat

The 'city of a thousand windows': an Ottoman hill town under a still-inhabited castle, UNESCO-listed since 2008.

BeratiBerat

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Durrës

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

DurrësiDurres

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Elbasan

A central industrial city inside an Ottoman fortress wall, on the old Via Egnatia.

ElbasaniElbasan

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Fier

The service town of the oil and farming plain, next to the ruins of Apollonia.

FieriFier

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Gjirokastër

The 'stone city': slate-roofed tower houses on a steep slope beneath one of the Balkans' largest castles.

GjirokastraGjirokaster

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Korçë

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

KorçaKorce

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Sarandë

The Ionian resort town facing Corfu, and the arrival point for most visitors to southern Albania.

SarandaVlore

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Shkodër

The cultural capital of the north: a lake, a fortress, a bicycle city and a Catholic heartland.

ShkodraShkoder

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Tirana

The capital: a fast-changing city of painted blocks, Ottoman survivals and new towers, under Mount Dajti.

TiranaTirane

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Vlorë

Where the Adriatic meets the Ionian, and where Albanian independence was declared in 1912.

VloraVlore