What country, friends, is this?' asks Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. 'This is Illyria, lady,' replies her shipwrecked captain. I've just come back from Illyria. Or at least where Illyria used ...

You might know little about Albania, the crown jewel of the Balkan Peninsula and rising darling of European tourism. Perhaps you haven’t read about the country’s dazzling 476km coastline straddling ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s a windy afternoon on a hilltop of northern Albania. A large stone farmhouse stands tilted against the ...

Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia tour has officially come to an end in Albania—where she recently got her citizenship. After touring around the world, the pop singer showed her appreciation to the country ...

It’s time to say buongiorno, or rather përshëndetje, to the first men’s Grand Tour of the year. If that second word doesn’t look familiar to you, it means ‘hello’ in Albanian, the language of the ...