The 'town of a thousand windows', with white Ottoman houses stacked up a hillside above the Osum River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. On top of the hill, the Kala citadel is still lived in, with Byzantine churches and the Onufri Museum of icons.
Walk across the footbridge to the Gorica quarter for the classic view. Berat is about 2 hours from Tirana. The nearby Osumi Canyon can be rafted in spring.
A huge Cold War nuclear bunker built for the dictator Enver Hoxha, with 106 rooms on five floors, now a museum of Albania's communist history and art.
A UNESCO-listed hill town of grey stone tower houses with slate roofs, built by Ottoman-era merchants, below a huge castle that holds a museum of wea…
A stretch of coast in southern Albania with turquoise water, white pebble beaches and villages backed by mountains.
An ancient city inhabited for 2,500 years, by Greeks, Romans, Byzantines and Venetians, set among woods and water on a peninsula near the Greek border.
A classic one-day hike over the Albanian Alps (the Accursed Mountains), between the remote villages of Valbona and Theth, crossing the Valbona Pass a…
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