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Berat, Albania: The City of a Thousand Windows
Berat, Albania: The City of a Thousand Windows

Berat, Albania: The City of a Thousand Windows, Complete 2026 Travel Guide Berat is a UNESCO World Heritage city in central Albania, about 120 km south of Tirana (roughly 2 to 2.5 hours by road). It is famous for its white Ottoman houses stacked in tiers up the hillside the "thousand windows" and for a hilltop castle where families still live inside the...

Shkodra, Albania: Gateway to the Alps
Shkodra, Albania: Gateway to the Alps

Shkodra, Albania: Gateway to the Alps, Complete 2026 Travel Guide Shkodra (also spelled Shkodër or Scutari) is northern Albania's cultural capital, set where the Buna, Drin, and Kir rivers meet the shores of Lake Shkodra, the largest lake in the Balkans. It is one of Albania's oldest continuously inhabited cities, famous for Rozafa Castle, the...

Kruja, Albania: The Eagle's Nest of Skanderbeg
Kruja, Albania: The Eagle's Nest of Skanderbeg

Kruja, Albania: The Eagle's Nest of Skanderbeg, Complete 2026 Travel Guide Kruja (also spelled Krujë) is a hillside town in the foothills of Mount Kruja, about 32 to 35 km north of Tirana, roughly 45 minutes to an hour by road. It is Albania's most important historical town, famous as the stronghold from which national hero Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg...

Gjirokastra, Albania: The Stone City
Gjirokastra, Albania: The Stone City

Gjirokastra, Albania: The Stone City, Complete 2026 Travel Guide Gjirokastra (also spelled Gjirokastër) is a UNESCO World Heritage city in southern Albania, set on the slope of Mali i Gjërë above the Drino river valley, about 200 km south of Tirana and roughly 4 hours by road. It is famous for its hilltop castle, one of the largest in the Balkans, for the...

Butrint, Albania: The Ancient City Between Lake and Sea
Butrint, Albania: The Ancient City Between Lake and Sea

Butrint, Albania: The Ancient City Between Lake and Sea, Complete 2026 Travel Guide Butrint (Butrinti) is a UNESCO World Heritage archaeological park in far southern Albania, set on a forested peninsula where Lake Butrint meets the Vivari Channel and the Ionian Sea, about 17 to 18 km south of Saranda and a short hop from Ksamil and the Greek island of Corfu....

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