Travelers seeking affordable European beach and mountain getaways have started flocking to Albania, an overlooked nation on the Balkan Peninsula. The country has the perfect blend of nature, culture, ...

When summer hits, visitors flood nearly every strip of sand from Portugal to Croatia. What, then, is a beach lover to do? Plan a trip to go beach hopping in Albania. I've thoroughly traveled this ...

RANA E HEDHUN, Albania (AP) — The Albanian beach site had everything in one place: pine trees, sand, sea, nearby mountains and days of nonstop music. “It’s very rare that you got all of those things ...

Berat, a Unesco World Heritage Site about two hours south of Tirana, Albania’s capital, lines the banks of the river Osum, ...

Vlorë, Albania is a coastal city with a long and fascinating history. With a strategic location in a bay on the Balkan Peninsula — exactly where the Adriatic Sea meets the Ionian — Vlorë has had its ...

For many years, the country was closed to foreign tourists, and tourist services have only begun to develop relatively recently. This turned out to be a real boon for tourists: well-known ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RANA E HEDHUN, Albania (AP) — The Albanian ...