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. Ruins include a Greek theatre, a baptistery with a mosaic floor, a basilica and city walls. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a national park.
Go early or late in summer. It's about 20 km from the resort of Sarandë, with buses, and an easy day trip from Corfu by ferry.
A stretch of coast in southern Albania with turquoise water, white pebble beaches and villages backed by mountains.
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…
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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