Riviera Albanese

There is a coast in Albania that the first European travellers of the twentieth century called the Riviera of the Flowers of the Orient, and not without reason: the Albanian Riviera drops steeply from the Ceraunian Mount...

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Featured region Albania

Albania Settentrionale

In 1444 Skanderbeg gathered the Albanian princes in the cathedral of Lezhë and swore the league that for a quarter of a century held off the Ottoman army: from that pact onward, northern Albania has cultivated a proud, a...

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Albania Centrale

In 1920 Tirana was little more than a large Ottoman town of twenty thousand souls gathered around a mosque and a covered bazaar: today it is a capital of almost half a million inhabitants, and it is precisely in this gap...

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Isole Ionie

Suspended between the deep blue of the Ionian and the emerald green of luxuriant vegetation, the Ionian Islands represent a cultured and refined exception in the Greek landscape. Also known as the Heptanese, or the «Seve...

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Veneto: From the Dolomites to the Venice Lagoon

Veneto is a mosaic of landscapes and civilisations packed into a single region: the Dolomite peaks of Cortina and the Marmolada, a UNESCO World Heritage site, descend toward the Prosecco hills and the Euganean Hills, the...

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Cicladi

Picture a circle of pearly white beads scattered across the deepest blue of the Aegean: these are the Cyclades, an archipelago that embodies the very essence of the Greek landscape. Their name, derived from the Greek wor...

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Albania Orientale

In December 1916, French troops advanced up the Devoll valley and proclaimed a short-lived autonomous republic in Korça: an almost forgotten episode that says a great deal about this corner of Albania, a borderland where...

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Macedonia Orientale e Tracia

1923 was supposed to erase every Muslim presence from northern Greece, as happened elsewhere in the great population exchange between Athens and Ankara. In Thrace, however, the Treaty of Lausanne made an exception: the r...

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Featured region Albania

Albania Meridionale

In 48 BC, fleeing from Pompey across a storm-tossed Adriatic, Julius Caesar's legions came ashore near Palaeste, a fishing harbour on the coast we now call the Albanian Riviera. Two thousand years later, that same coastl...

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Grecia Centrale

According to myth, Zeus released two eagles from opposite ends of the world and sent them flying toward one another: they met over a valley at the foot of Mount Parnassus, and it was there that the stone of the omphalos,...

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Featured region Montenegro

Costa del Montenegro

On April 15, 1979, a magnitude 7 earthquake shook the Montenegrin coast, cracking the Venetian walls of Kotor and sinking part of the pier in Budva: it was precisely from that wound, and from the reconstruction work that...

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Puglia

Benvenuti in Puglia, il lembo di terra dove l'Italia si allunga verso l'Oriente, diventando un ponte naturale di pietra baciata dal sole e lambita da due mari. Questa regione, che costituisce il tacco dello stivale, è un...

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