Plaats · Durrës
Krujë
Skanderbeg's mountain stronghold, an old bazaar street, and the national museum of the resistance.
Plaats · Vlorë
Himarë
The centre of the Riviera coast: a Greek-speaking historical community, an old hill village and a string of coves.
Plaats · Vlorë
Ksamil
Four small islands and very clear shallow water; the most photographed and most crowded stretch of the Albanian coast.
Plaats · Gjirokastër
Përmet
A small Vjosa-side town known for its fruit preserves, thermal baths and polyphonic singing.
Plaats · Korçë
Pogradec
A lakeside town on Ohrid, a UNESCO natural and cultural site shared with North Macedonia.
Plaats · Lezhë
Lezhë
Where the Albanian princes swore their 1444 league, and where Skanderbeg is buried.
Plaats · Gjirokastër
Libohovë
A hill town below a castle built by Ali Pasha for his sister, opposite Gjirokastër.
Plaats · Vlorë
Delvinë
A hill town above the Sarandë plain with a mixed Albanian and Greek population.
Plaats · Kukës
Kukës
A town rebuilt above a reservoir in the 1970s, and the northern end of the Nation's Road.
Plaats · Dibër
Peshkopi
The seat of Dibër County, known for thermal springs and the high pastures below Mount Korab.
Plaats · Korçë
Bilisht
The seat of Devoll municipality, on the Greek border in an apple-growing plain.
Plaats · Fier
Ballsh
The seat of Mallakastër and the site of Albania's main oil refinery, near the ruins of Byllis.
Plaats · Dibër
Burrel
The seat of Mat municipality in the central highlands, near the Mat river dams.
Plaats · Tiranë
Kavajë
A market town behind the Adriatic dunes, near the wide beaches of Golem and Spille.
Plaats · Tiranë
Kamëz
A city on Tirana's northern edge that grew almost entirely from internal migration after 1991.
Plaats · Dibër
Bulqizë
A chromium mining town — Albania is among the world's larger chrome producers.
Plaats · Gjirokastër
Dropull
A valley of villages south of Gjirokastër with a large Greek-speaking population.
Plaats · Shkodër
Koplik
The seat of Malësi e Madhe, at the foot of the Alps near the Montenegrin border.
Plaats · Vlorë
Finiq
A municipality of villages near Sarandë, containing the Blue Eye and the ancient site of Phoenice.
Plaats · Kukës
Bajram Curri
The road head for the Valbona valley, named after a guerrilla leader of the 1920s.
Plaats · Fier
Lushnjë
An agricultural centre on the Myzeqe plain, and the site of the 1920 congress that saved Albanian statehood.
Plaats · Lezhë
Shëngjin
A northern beach resort and small commercial port backed by the Kune-Vain pine lagoons.
Plaats · Lezhë
Laç
An industrial town and the site of the Saint Anthony pilgrimage church at Shëngjin i Vogël.
Plaats · Durrës
Fushë-Krujë
The industrial town on the plain below Krujë, and the site of Albania's largest cement works.
Plaats · Elbasan
Belsh
A hill town surrounded by more than eighty small lakes and extensive olive groves.
Plaats · Fier
Divjakë
The town beside the Karavasta lagoon and the pine forest of the national park.
Plaats · Tiranë
Rrogozhinë
A junction town on the Shkumbin near the Bashtovë fortress and the Spille beaches.
Plaats · Durrës
Shijak
A market town between Durrës and Tirana with a long-established Roma and Egyptian community.
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