All posts tagged: "Nearby Attractions"

A quiet lagoon of herons and egrets, and a tiny Byzantine church built for the water beside it.

A sea cave big enough to sail into, named after a warrior who is said to have hidden here.

A tiny cove where, for two thousand years, sailors waiting for the wind carved their names into the rock.

No roads, no buildings, just limestone, turquoise water and one bay after another.

The island you see from the Lungomare: for 33 years Italian, then a fortress of the Cold War.

At 1,027 metres the road crests the mountains, the air turns cool and resinous, and the Riviera appears at your feet.

A steep path from the mountains to the sea, on the coast where Caesar is said to have landed his army.

The roof of the Albanian coast: 2,045 metres, from Mediterranean pines to an alpine summit in a single day.

The “Blind One’s Peak”: a shorter, wilder climb to 2,018 metres above the Riviera.

North of Vlorë, a wooden bridge leads across a lagoon of flamingos to an island where time seems to have stopped seven centuries ago.