Everything you need to know about Albania
Explore Albania from Tirana and the Adriatic ports to the northern Alps, Ottoman towns and Ionian Riviera. Place sixteen cities and towns, discover sixteen sights, read ten illustrated topics and begin Albanian.
Read it, then make it stick
Two seas, mountain valleys and shared lakes
Albania sits on the western side of the Balkan Peninsula, where mountain valleys open onto the Adriatic and Ionian seas. Its compact size hides a varied landscape: northern alpine peaks, large border lakes, coastal plains and the southern Riviera.
Know the shape of the country
Place sixteen cities and towns in two learning groups: north and centre, and south. These groups are not counties or municipalities. Pins use curated settlement centres on a generalised Natural Earth country outline; zoom in to separate nearby places.
Places worth visiting
Essential · City square
Skanderbeg Square
The capital’s main square connects Skanderbeg’s statue with the mosque, clock tower and twentieth-century civic buildings.
Explore sixteen sights from Tirana and the northern Alps to ancient coastal cities and the stone towns of the south. Essential and Worth a detour indicate learning priorities. Landscape pins are representative points, not trails, entrances or opening information. Follow local protected-area and worship rules. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Albanian with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
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