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Tirana

Painted facades, bunker museums and a cable car to the mountains

Berat

The town of a thousand windows, under a living castle

Gjirokastër

Silver stone roofs below a vast Ottoman fortress

Sarandë

Riviera base camp, with Corfu on the horizon

Shkodër

Bicycles, café culture and the gateway to the Alps

Himarë

The Riviera's calmer half, with coves under the mountains

Ksamil

Turquoise water, tiny islands and the ruins of Butrint next door

Vlorë

Where independence was declared, and the gateway to the Riviera

Durrës

A Roman amphitheatre in the middle of town and the closest beach to Tirana

Korçë

Albania's cultural capital: old bazaar, cathedrals and the beer festival

Përmet

Rafting the Vjosa, thermal springs and Albania's slow-food town

Theth

Remote stone village in the Albanian Alps and the start of the Valbona hike