Durrës
Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.
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Kavajë is a town a little way back from the sea, between Durrës and the mouth of the Shkumbin river. Long sandy beaches are just a few kilometres away.
Kavajë is a town a little way back from the sea, between Durrës and the mouth of the Shkumbin river. Long sandy beaches are just a few kilometres away.
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Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.
A rare rectangular lowland fortress built by Venice to guard a river port on the Shkumbin.
The busiest stretch of the central sandy coast, immediately south of Durrës.
A junction town on the Shkumbin near the Bashtovë fortress and the Spille beaches.
A quieter sand beach south of Kavajë, backed by farmland rather than hotels.
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