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Albania's city of a thousand windows, a white Ottoman town on a hillside.
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Antigonea
The ruins of a city founded by King Pyrrhus around 295 BC, on a hill with views over the Drino valley.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid; a small fee
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- Jermë, GjirokastërDirections
- Getting There
- About 20 minutes by car from town.
Why Go
Pyrrhus of Epirus named the city for his wife, and the Romans destroyed it in 167 BC. Walls, houses and an early Christian church with a mosaic floor lie scattered across the hillside.
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