Historic sites in Albania

Historic sites

Berat

Berat

The 'town of a thousand windows', with white Ottoman houses stacked up a hillside above the Osum River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Historic sites

Butrint

Bashkia Konispol, Vlorë

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.

Historic sites

Gjirokastër

Gjirokastër

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…