Town
Krujë
Skanderbeg's mountain stronghold, an old bazaar street, and the national museum of the resistance.
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Town
Lezhë
Where the Albanian princes swore their 1444 league, and where Skanderbeg is buried.
Town
Lushnjë
An agricultural centre on the Myzeqe plain, and the site of the 1920 congress that saved Albanian statehood.
Town
Peqin
A small town on the Shkumbin at a crossing point used since Roman times.
Town
Tepelenë
Ali Pasha's birthplace, at the confluence of the Vjosa and the Drino.
City
Vlorë
Where the Adriatic meets the Ionian, and where Albanian independence was declared in 1912.
Village
Voskopojë
In the 18th century one of the largest towns in the Balkans; today a village of frescoed churches.