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Albania

Albania sits along the Adriatic and Ionian coasts, wedged between Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Greece. The beaches around Ksamil and Dhërmi rival an

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Albanian Alps

The Albanian Alps, known locally as the Accursed Mountains, rise sharply in the country's north, forming a rugged border zone with Montenegro and Kosovo. This i

Albania

Albanian Riviera

The Albanian Riviera stretches along the Ionian coast south of Vlorë down to Sarandë, backed by the Ceraunian Mountains that plunge dramatically toward turquois

Alps

The Alps stretch across eight countries—France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Liechtenstein, and Monaco—forming Europe's great mountain spine.

Albania — Fier

Apollonia

Apollonia is an archaeological site in southwestern Albania, not far from the city of Fier, spread across a hillside overlooking the Vjosë river valley. Founded

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Austria

Austria is compact, orderly, and scenically dramatic, anchored by Vienna's imperial grandeur and the Alps that dominate the country's western half. Vienna itsel

Balkans

The Balkans stretch from Slovenia down through Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, and Greece, though what counts a

Albania — Berat

Berat

Berat is known as the "town of a thousand windows," and standing in the old quarter looking up at the hillside, you'll see why—rows of white Ottoman-era houses

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Bosnia & Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina occupies mountainous terrain in the western Balkans, and its landscape and history are deeply intertwined—rivers cut through deep gorges,

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria sits in the southeastern corner of Europe, bordering Romania, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece, and Turkey, with a Black Sea coastline that draws summer

Albania — Vlorë

Butrint

Butrint is an archaeological site on a wooded peninsula in southern Albania, near the Greek border and not far from Corfu, which is visible across the water on

Austria

Carinthia

Carinthia is Austria's southernmost province, tucked against the Slovenian and Italian borders, and it feels distinctly Mediterranean-influenced compared to the

Central Europe

Central Europe generally refers to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary — a region shaped by overlapping empires (Ha

Italy — Veneto

Cortina d'Ampezzo

Cortina d'Ampezzo sits in a bowl of jagged Dolomite peaks in the Veneto region, and it's as much about scenery as skiing — the mountains here, with their pale r

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Croatia

Croatia stretches along the Adriatic in a long crescent, and most visitors come for the coast: over a thousand islands, limestone cliffs dropping into turquoise

Drava River

The Drava rises in the Italian Dolomites, cuts across Austria's Carinthia region, forms much of the border between Slovenia and Croatia, then joins the Danube i

Albania — Durrës

Durrës

Durrës is Albania's main port city, about half an hour from Tirana, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited towns in Europe, founded by Greek colonists as

Europe

Europe rewards travelers who like variety packed into short distances. You can eat pastries in a Parisian café, take a three-hour train to Amsterdam for canal-s

Albania — Gjirokastër

Gjirokastër

Gjirokastër is a stone city in southern Albania, tumbling down a steep hillside beneath a massive Ottoman-era castle. Its distinctive silver-gray stone roofs an

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Greece

Greece rewards travelers who go beyond Santorini and Mykonos, though those islands earn their fame — Santorini's caldera sunsets and Mykonos's whitewashed lanes

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Hungary

Hungary sits landlocked in Central Europe, its identity shaped by the Danube, which splits Budapest into hilly Buda and flat, grid-like Pest. The capital's Parl

Austria — Tyrol

Innsbruck

Innsbruck sits in a narrow Alpine valley along the Inn River, with mountains rising almost straight up from the edge of town on both sides—the Nordkette range i

Italian Dolomites

The Dolomites are a mountain range in northeastern Italy, part of the Alps but geologically distinct — pale limestone peaks that turn pink and orange at sunset,

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Italy

Italy packs an extraordinary range into a compact, boot-shaped peninsula: the Alps along the north, the Po Valley's farmland, the Apennine spine running the len