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 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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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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Tessaglia

Anyone crossing Thessaly by train or car immediately notices a tear in the landscape: kilometres of wheat and cotton fields as flat as a table and, suddenly, without warning, towers of grey rock dozens of metres high tha...

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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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Macedonia Occidentale

At the exact point where the borders of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia meet, amid the waters of Lake Prespa, there is no dramatic signpost: only reed beds, the low flight of pelicans and the silence of a land that f...

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Montenegro Settentrionale

In January 1916, on the snow-covered heights above Mojkovac, the army of the small Kingdom of Montenegro held out for three days against Austro-Hungarian troops, buying the time needed to bring the government to safety a...

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Montenegro Centrale

Podgorica has changed its name four times in less than a century — Ribnica, Podgorica, Titograd, and Podgorica again — while some thirty kilometres away Cetinje still holds the official title of "royal capital" even thou...

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Sporadi

The ferry from Volos has barely cut its engines before the scent of pine resin drifts into the cabin, mixed with salt: it rarely happens, in the Aegean, that an archipelago announces itself by smell before by sight. The...

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Grecia Occidentale

Travelers arriving by ferry from Ancona, Bari, or Brindisi first see the lights of the port of Patras, and then, looking west, the suspended arch of the Rio-Antirrio bridge that welds the Peloponnese to mainland Greece:...

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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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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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