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.
County
Berat County
An inland county of vineyards, the Osum canyon and a UNESCO-listed hill town.
Historic site
Butrint
A Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman city layered on one wooded peninsula — Albania's first UNESCO site.
Protected area
Butrint National Park
A wetland and forest park wrapped around the archaeological city, on the Vivari channel.
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.
County
Gjirokastër County
The southern mountain county of the Drino and Vjosa valleys, with a UNESCO stone city.
Lake
Lake Ohrid
One of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes, UNESCO-listed and home to species found nowhere else.
Town
Pogradec
A lakeside town on Ohrid, a UNESCO natural and cultural site shared with North Macedonia.
Protected area
Shebenik-Jabllanicë National Park
Old-growth beech forest on the North Macedonian border, part of a UNESCO-listed primeval forest network.