AL · Curated travel guide
Apollonia (Illyria), Jezercë, Mount Korab and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Albania and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Archaeological park in Albania
A Greek trading colony that became an independent polis and then a Roman city, in southern Illyria. It stood on the right bank of the Aoös/Vjosë river, some 10 km inland from the Adriatic's eastern coast.
Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mountain in Albania
The highest peak of the Dinaric Alps, Albania's second highest and the sixth highest in Southeast Europe, rising 2,694 m (8,839 ft) above sea level.
Photo: Vlado Vujisic, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain in Albania and North Macedonia
The highest peak of the range that shares its name, and at 2,764 metres the fourth-highest mountain lying wholly within the Balkan Peninsula.
Photo: Pavouk, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain in Albania
A mountain rising just east of Tirana, the Albanian capital, in the centre of the country. Part of the Skanderbeg Mountains, it runs 8 km (5.0 mi) from Shkalla e Tujanit, at its northwest end, to Qafa e Priskës, at its southeast end, and is 5 km (3.1 mi) wide.
Photo: Edvini, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ancient Roman amphitheater in Durrës, Albania
A Roman amphitheatre at the heart of Durrës, Albania, begun under the emperor Trajan in the 2nd century AD and twice brought down by earthquakes, in the 6th and again in the 10th century.
Photo: Marcin Konsek, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sunni mosque in Tirana, Albania
Officially the Haji Et'hem Bey Mosque, a Sunni mosque in Tirana, known for the frescoes of trees, waterfalls and bridges inside and outside its portico.
Photo: Pudelek, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Public square in Tirana, Albania
Tirana's main square, in the city centre, named after Skanderbeg, Albania's national hero.
Photo: Pudelek, CC BY-SA 4.0
Statue located at the National Martyrs Cemetery of Albania
A statue 12-metre-tall (39 ft), dedicated in 1972, that stands at Albania's National Martyrs' Cemetery.
Photo: Julian Nyča, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Castle near Shkodër, Northwestern Albania
Also called Shkodër Castle, a castle in the city of Shkodër, in north-western Albania. Standing 130 metres (430 ft) above sea level, it rises imposingly from a rocky hill, with the Drin and Buna rivers around it.
Photo: Bdx, CC BY-SA 3.0
Officially the Republic of Albania, a Balkan country of Southeast Europe on the Ionian and Adriatic Seas, arms of the Mediterranean. It has four land neighbours: Greece to its south, North Macedonia to its east, Kosovo to its northeast and Montenegro to its northwest. Its 28,748 km² (11,100 sq mi) take in a wide variety of climate, geology, water and landforms.
Officially The Republic of Albania. Known locally as Shqipëria.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Apollonia (Illyria), Jezercë, Mount Korab and Dajti and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Albania that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
Albanian. The currency is ALL.
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