Cities and resorts of Albania

Berat is situated in 122 kilometres south-east of Tirana at the bottom of Mount Tomor in the coastal zone of the Osun River. It is one of the most attractive places in Albania both for local people and for foreign tourists...

In the south of the country tourists have a possibility to visit a unique archaeological open-air museum named Butrint, which is situated 160 kilometres from Tirana near the border between Albania and Greece. From this place which is spread out along...

Durres is situated 38 kilometres west of Tirana. It is very easy to reach this place by train. Direct ferries run between Durres and Italian cities of Triesta and Ankona. There is also ferry line to Slovenian city of Koper. The well-known resort...

Kruja is a town founded in the Middle Ages. It is spread out on the top of Mount Sari Saltiki in 32 kilometres from Tirana. The name of the town is connected with George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg), a national hero of Albania struggled against Ottoman...

Saranda region with its cultural, historic and natural sights is the real boast of Albania. They are interesting both for specialists – architects, archaeologists, historians, culturologists, ecologists – and for ordinary tourists...

Established as early as in 1614 the city of Tirana is the capital of Albania since 1920. The best place to see the city is the large Skanderbeg square. It is located in the centre of Tirana and bounded by the Dajti Mountain (1,612 meters above the...

This one of the most ancient towns of Albania, the center of the Albanian Catholicism, is rightly included in the number of the main towns of the country’s north and is famous for its fascinating and rich in events history. It is confirmed by ruins of...

Kukes is one of the most attractive regional centers of Albania. It is situated in the Kukes district in 100 kilometres from Tirana, the capital of the Republic. The most interesting and famous sights can be found right in the nearest suburbs of Kukes...

Gjirokastra is an Albanian town-museum known as a “stone town” or a “city of one thousand steps”. Situated in 120 kilometres from the capital of the country on a picturesque mountain slope over the Drin River Gjirokastra is an important town of the...

Korca is situated 179 kilometres to the south-east of Tirana. It is the main town of the region. Korca is located on a high plateau (869 meters above sea level) southward of Lake Ohrid near the border with Greece. Korca is the largest centre of carpet...

Apollonia is one of the largest well-known in the whole Illyria ancient Greek port. It was founded in 588 B.C. in the country of the Illyrian tribe of Taulantii, native of Corinth and Kerkyra, who liked this place on the right shore of the Aoia...

The town of Vlora is situated on the south-west of Albania in 147 kilometres from Tirana. It was declared the first capital of independent Albania. The first monuments of ancient ages located in the town are dated by the 6th century B.C. At that period...

The resort of Pogradec is situated in the south-east part of Albania near the border with FYROM on the shore of Lake Ohrid (140 kilometres from Tirana)....