2025
CITADEL OF BERAT
Berat
Fortifications and ramparts to visit
4.7/5
(9 reviews)
Superb. Home to numerous churches, the country's oldest mosque (in ruins) and the prestigious ...Read more
2025
MUSÉE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE D'APOLLONIE D'ILLYRIE
Pojan
Archaeology
5/5
(1 review)
Museum created in 1958 in a superb setting in Pojan, housing around half of the objects from ...Read more
2025
MONASTÈRE DE LA DORMITION-DE-LA-MÈRE-DE-DIEU
Pojan
Abbey monastery and convent
5/5
(1 review)
Superb 13th-century Byzantine church in the archaeological site of Apollonia d'Illyria. ...Read more
2025
CATHÉDRALE SAINT-DÉMÉTRIOS
Berat
Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels
5/5
(1 review)
The main Orthodox church in central Albania. Completed in 2014, it boasts a beautiful new ...Read more
2025
ONUFRI MUSEUM AND OLD CATHEDRAL
Berat
Museums
4.6/5
(5 reviews)
Houses some of the works of the Berat school of painting, founded in the 16th century by ...Read more
2025
GORICA DISTRICT
Berat
Street square and neighborhood to visit
5/5
(1 review)
A small district of white houses with gardens, listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site. ...Read more
2025
MANGALEM DISTRICT
Berat
Street square and neighborhood to visit
5/5
(1 review)
The historic center of Berat, a Unesco World Heritage site. It's the "city of a thousand ...Read more
2025
DURRËS ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Durrës
Museums
4.5/5
(2 reviews)
Still suffering from the great looting of 1997. But fine collections of Aphrodite statuettes, ...Read more
2025
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF APOLLONIA OF ILLYRIA
Pojan
Archaeological site
3.9/5
(7 reviews)
The country's second-largest archaeological site, after Butrint. Greek and Roman remains, ...Read more
2025
MONASTERY OF ARDENICA
Ardenica
Abbey monastery and convent
3.8/5
(4 reviews)
Albania's only active Orthodox monastery. Skanderbeg's wedding was celebrated here in 1451. ...Read more
2025
KING'S MOSQUE
Elbasan
Mosque to visit
4/5
(1 review)
One of the oldest mosques in Albania (1502), it is located in the citadel and is modest in ...Read more
2025
ELBASAN CITADEL
Elbasan
Fortifications and ramparts to visit
4/5
(1 review)
This citadel is the heart of Elbasan. In fact, it's one of the few pleasant neighborhoods in ...Read more
2025
TOUR DE L'HORLOGE D'ELBASAN
Elbasan
Towers to visit
4/5
(1 review)
White tower, 15 m high, erected in 1899 on a bastion of the Elbasan citadel. Iconic but not ...Read more
2025
MOSQUÉE FATHI
Durrës
Mosque to visit
4/5
(1 review)
Presented as the oldest in the country... which is not true. Modest building constructed in ...Read more
2025
DURRËS AMPHITHEATER
Durrës
Ancient monuments
3.3/5
(4 reviews)
The largest Roman amphitheatre in the Balkans. Poorly promoted, it has suffered serious damage ...Read more
2025
BERAT ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM
Berat
Museums
3/5
(1 review)
Beautiful 18th-century fortified house. Traditional 19th-century costumes, reconstruction of ...Read more
2025
PLACE D'ILLYRIE
Durrës
Street square and neighborhood to visit
Central square designed after the 1926 earthquake. Town hall topped by a clock tower, Durrës ...Read more
2025
MUSÉE DES MARTYRS
Durrës
Memorial to visit
It's not a "museum", but a memorial to World War II resistance fighters and victims of the Nazi ...Read more
2025
MONUMENT DE LA RÉSISTANCE
Durrës
Columns and statues to see
Striking bronze statue of a fighter raising his rifle for the assault. Symbol of resistance to ...Read more