Espace protégé
Valbona Valley National Park
A broad U-shaped glacial valley of white gravel and beech forest under the Alps' highest peaks.
En clair
Kukës is a mountain town in the north-east. The old town was flooded when a dam was built, so a new one was built higher up beside the new lake. During the Kosovo war in 1999 the town sheltered many thousands of refugees.
Explication synthétique
Kukës is a mountain town in the north-east. The old town was flooded when a dam was built, so a new one was built higher up beside the new lake. During the Kosovo war in 1999 the town sheltered many thousands of refugees.
Sommaire Kukës
Aéroport
Kukës International Airport
A small northern airport that opened to commercial flights in 2021, mainly serving the diaspora.
Site énergétique
Fierza Hydropower Plant
The uppermost and largest of the Drin dams, creating a reservoir shared with Kosovo.
Route
A1 — the Nation's Road
The Durrës–Kukës–Morina motorway, including the 5.6 km Kalimash tunnel, linking Albania to Kosovo.
Bourg
Kukës
A town rebuilt above a reservoir in the 1970s, and the northern end of the Nation's Road.
Village
Valbonë
A wide white riverbed under 2,500 m peaks; the eastern end of the Theth trek.
Bourg
Bajram Curri
The road head for the Valbona valley, named after a guerrilla leader of the 1920s.
Bourg
Krumë
The seat of Has municipality in the north-eastern hills near Kosovo.
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Comté
Dibër County
Albania's mountain interior on the North Macedonian border, containing Mount Korab.
Ville
Shkodër
The cultural capital of the north: a lake, a fortress, a bicycle city and a Catholic heartland.
Aéroport
Kukës International Airport
A small northern airport that opened to commercial flights in 2021, mainly serving the diaspora.
Site énergétique
Fierza Hydropower Plant
The uppermost and largest of the Drin dams, creating a reservoir shared with Kosovo.
Bourg
Lezhë
Where the Albanian princes swore their 1444 league, and where Skanderbeg is buried.
Massif montagneux
The Albanian Alps
The limestone wall of the far north — locally the Accursed Mountains — shared with Montenegro and Kosovo.
Route
A1 — the Nation's Road
The Durrës–Kukës–Morina motorway, including the 5.6 km Kalimash tunnel, linking Albania to Kosovo.
Village
Valbonë
A wide white riverbed under 2,500 m peaks; the eastern end of the Theth trek.
Sujets associés
Aéroport
Kukës International Airport
A small northern airport that opened to commercial flights in 2021, mainly serving the diaspora.
Route
A1 — the Nation's Road
The Durrës–Kukës–Morina motorway, including the 5.6 km Kalimash tunnel, linking Albania to Kosovo.
Sources
- Wikipedia —
Kukës — English Wikipedia
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Kukës — English Wikipedia
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Wikidata item Q210197
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Source of the population, area and elevation figures shown in Quick facts, each with its own observation year. - Wikidata —
Wikidata item Q210197
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Source of the population, area and elevation figures shown in Quick facts, each with its own observation year. - Wikimedia Commons —
Photographs
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Photographs
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