Guidebooks used to write the name of my city in two ways: Gjirokastër in Albanian, and Argyrokastron for foreigners. The classical-sounding name somehow gave it better credentials, because people in ...

In this adapted extract from his new book, Minarets in the Mountains, Tharik Hussain discovers a historic centre of Islamic learning in the country’s scenic southern hills The silhouette of ...

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In southern Albania, there is a city called Gjirokastër sitting on top of a hill. Albania’s former Communist dictator Enver Hoxha was born there, but so was Ismail Kadare, the country’s greatest ...

While many savvy travelers come to Albania to experience the beauty of the Mediterranean without crowds, if you're willing to leave the beaches behind, you can have a truly fascinating and beautiful ...

Don’t go to Gjirokaster. You’ve never heard of it anyway, and who would want to give up a couple of weeks of their precious annual leave on a mountainous city in Albania? It’s impossible to get to, ...

Canadians sure love the holidays, we have the stats to prove it! How Canada's farmers are producing record crops despite droughts and floods ...