Site historique · Vlorë
Butrint
A Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman city layered on one wooded peninsula — Albania's first UNESCO site.
Site historique · Berat
Berat Castle
A fortress people still live inside, holding some twenty churches and the Onufri icon museum.
Site historique · Gjirokastër
Gjirokastër Castle
One of the largest castles in the Balkans, holding an artillery gallery and a captured US aircraft.
Site historique · Fier
Apollonia
A Corinthian colony that became a Roman university town — Octavian was studying here when Caesar was killed.
Site historique · Shkodër
Rozafa Castle
The rock fortress above the meeting of three rivers, and the setting of Albania's best-known legend.
Site historique · Durrës
Krujë Castle
Skanderbeg's base, which held out against three Ottoman sieges and now houses the national museum of the resistance.
Site historique · Durrës
Durrës Amphitheatre
The largest Roman amphitheatre in the Balkans, found by accident in 1966 under the modern city.
Site historique · Fier
Byllis
The largest Illyrian city yet excavated, on a plateau above the Vjosa with five early Christian basilicas.
Site historique · Vlorë
Porto Palermo Castle
A triangular fortress on a causeway peninsula, built for Ali Pasha of Tepelena.
Site historique · Gjirokastër
Antigonea
A short-lived Epirote city founded by King Pyrrhus and burned by Rome in 167 BC.
Site historique · Vlorë
Amantia
An Illyrian hill city whose stadium — cut into the slope — is among the best preserved in the region.
Site historique · Tiranë
Et'hem Bey Mosque
The small mosque on Skanderbeg Square whose frescoes of trees and waterfalls are unusual in Islamic art.
Site historique · Tiranë
Bunk'Art
A five-storey anti-nuclear bunker built for the communist leadership, opened to the public in 2014.
Site historique · Durrës
Skanderbeg Museum
The museum of the 15th-century resistance, built inside Krujë Castle by Enver Hoxha's daughter and son-in-law.
Site historique · Korçë
The Churches of Voskopojë
Six surviving basilicas of a town that once rivalled any city in the Balkans, covered inside with frescoes.
Site historique · Shkodër
Mesi Bridge
A 108 m, thirteen-arch packhorse bridge over the Kir north-east of Shkodër.
Site historique · Fier
Ardenica Monastery
A hilltop monastery on the Myzeqe plain where, by tradition, Skanderbeg was married in 1451.
Site historique · Tiranë
Albania's Bunkers
Roughly 170,000 concrete pillboxes built under Enver Hoxha — the most visible physical legacy of the communist state.
Site historique · Tiranë
The Pyramid of Tirana
Built as Enver Hoxha's mausoleum-museum, later a nightclub and NATO base, reopened in 2023 as a youth technology centre.
Site historique · Tiranë
Fortress of Bashtovë
A rare rectangular lowland fortress built by Venice to guard a river port on the Shkumbin.
Site historique · Tiranë
National History Museum
Albania's principal museum, under the Skanderbeg Square mosaic mural known as 'The Albanians'.
Site historique · Elbasan
Elbasan Castle
An Ottoman fortress built on a Roman site, with a living town inside its walls.
Site historique · Durrës
Durrës Castle
Byzantine sea walls raised under Anastasius I, later strengthened by Venice and the Ottomans.
Site historique · Tiranë
Prezë Castle
A compact hill castle between Tirana and the airport, with a view over the whole plain.
Site historique · Shkodër
Marubi National Museum of Photography
The archive of the Balkans' oldest photographic studio — about 500,000 negatives from 1858 onward.
Site historique · Tiranë
Petrelë Castle
A small triangular castle on a wooded crag above the Erzen, half an hour from Tirana.
Site historique · Tiranë
House of Leaves
The former headquarters of the Sigurimi's technical surveillance branch, kept as it was found.
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