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 weapons and a captured US Air Force plane. The Skenduli house shows how wealthy families lived.
The old bazaar is a good place for crafts. The Cold War tunnel under the town can be toured. Gjirokastër is in southern Albania, about an hour from Sarandë.
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.
The 'town of a thousand windows', with white Ottoman houses stacked up a hillside above the Osum River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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 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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