Bovilla Reservoir
Tirana's drinking-water reservoir, ringed by limestone cliffs half an hour from the capital.
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Tirana's drinking-water reservoir, ringed by limestone cliffs half an hour from the capital.
A town rebuilt above a reservoir in the 1970s, and the northern end of the Nation's Road.
A 34 km reservoir in a gorge so narrow the ferry crossing is treated as a scenic journey in its own right.
Albania's longest river and the backbone of its electricity system, dammed three times in the north.
The town beside the lowest dam of the Drin cascade, east of Shkodër.