City · Berat
Berat
The 'city of a thousand windows': an Ottoman hill town under a still-inhabited castle, UNESCO-listed since 2008.
City · Gjirokastër
Gjirokastër
The 'stone city': slate-roofed tower houses on a steep slope beneath one of the Balkans' largest castles.
City · Tiranë
Tirana
The capital: a fast-changing city of painted blocks, Ottoman survivals and new towers, under Mount Dajti.
City · Shkodër
Shkodër
The cultural capital of the north: a lake, a fortress, a bicycle city and a Catholic heartland.
City · Vlorë
Sarandë
The Ionian resort town facing Corfu, and the arrival point for most visitors to southern Albania.
City · Vlorë
Vlorë
Where the Adriatic meets the Ionian, and where Albanian independence was declared in 1912.
City · Durrës
Durrës
Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.
City · Korçë
Korçë
The highland city of serenades, the first Albanian-language school, and the country's oldest brewery.
City · Elbasan
Elbasan
A central industrial city inside an Ottoman fortress wall, on the old Via Egnatia.
