City
Berat
The 'city of a thousand windows': an Ottoman hill town under a still-inhabited castle, UNESCO-listed since 2008.
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Historic site
Berat Castle
A fortress people still live inside, holding some twenty churches and the Onufri icon museum.
Historic site
Durrës Castle
Byzantine sea walls raised under Anastasius I, later strengthened by Venice and the Ottomans.
Historic site
Elbasan Castle
An Ottoman fortress built on a Roman site, with a living town inside its walls.
Historic site
Fortress of Bashtovë
A rare rectangular lowland fortress built by Venice to guard a river port on the Shkumbin.
Beach
General Beach (Plazhi i Gjeneralit)
A sheltered arc on the Rodon cape, below Skanderbeg's coastal castle.
City
Gjirokastër
The 'stone city': slate-roofed tower houses on a steep slope beneath one of the Balkans' largest castles.
Historic site
Gjirokastër Castle
One of the largest castles in the Balkans, holding an artillery gallery and a captured US aircraft.
Town
Krujë
Skanderbeg's mountain stronghold, an old bazaar street, and the national museum of the resistance.
Historic site
Krujë Castle
Skanderbeg's base, which held out against three Ottoman sieges and now houses the national museum of the resistance.
Town
Libohovë
A hill town below a castle built by Ali Pasha for his sister, opposite Gjirokastër.
Historic site
Petrelë Castle
A small triangular castle on a wooded crag above the Erzen, half an hour from Tirana.
Beach
Porto Palermo Bay
A near-enclosed bay wrapped around Ali Pasha's triangular fortress on its own peninsula.
Historic site
Porto Palermo Castle
A triangular fortress on a causeway peninsula, built for Ali Pasha of Tepelena.
Historic site
Prezë Castle
A compact hill castle between Tirana and the airport, with a view over the whole plain.
Historic site
Rozafa Castle
The rock fortress above the meeting of three rivers, and the setting of Albania's best-known legend.
City
Shkodër
The cultural capital of the north: a lake, a fortress, a bicycle city and a Catholic heartland.