Géographie de l'Albanievignette|Le lac Shkopeti, sur la rivière Mat, en Albanie. Aout 2017. LAlbanie est un petit État situé entre les Balkans et la mer Méditerranée. Son climat est de type méditerranéen sur la frange littorale, continental ailleurs. Tirana en est la capitale, la cité atteignant presque le million d’habitants ; les autres villes importantes du pays sont : Durrës (environ habitants), Elbasan et Shkodra chacune avec environ habitants, Vlora (), Korçë () et Berat (). left|thumb|Géologie de l'Albanie et des Balkans.
Albanian RivieraThe Albanian Riviera (Riviera shqiptare, ɾiviˈɛɾa ʃcipˈtaɾɛ), also popularly known as Bregu, is a coastline along the Northeastern Ionian Sea in the Mediterranean Sea encompassing the districts of Sarandë and Vlorë in Southwestern Albania. It forms an important section of the Albanian Ionian Sea Coast dotted with the villages of Palasë, Dhërmi, Vuno, Himara, Qeparo, Borsh, Piqeras, Lukovë and the city of Sarandë. The riviera should not be confused with the entire coastline of the country, which includes the Ionian Sea Coast, and the mostly flat Adriatic Sea Coast in the north.
PalasëPalasë (Palasë or Palasa; Παλάσα, Palasa) also Paljasa (Παλιάσα), is a village in Himarë municipality (13 kilometres from the town), Vlorë County, southern Albania. It is located near the Llogara National Park and next to the Ionian coast on the Albanian Riviera. In classical antiquity Roman writer Lucan recorded a town named Palaeste on the Ceraunian Mountains, which corresponds to the site area of modern day Palasë. In Palaeste, Julius Caesar landed from Brundusium, in order to carry on the war against Pompey.
VunoVuno is a village in Himara municipality, Vlorë County, Albania. It is located along the road between the municipal centre of Himarë and the village of Dhërmi in the Albanian Riviera. It is said that because of the village's situation on the hills, which ascend to about , the village's name derives from the Greek word Vouno (Βουνό), meaning "mountain". In 1628 a school was founded in Vuno by Catholic missionary Neophytos Rodinos. The latter was sent to Himara region in order to convert the local Greek Orthodox element to Catholicism.
HimarëHimarë (Himara; Χιμάρα, Chimara or Χειμάρρα, Cheimarra) is a municipality and region in Vlorë County, southern Albania. The municipality has a total area of and consists of the administrative units of Himarë, Horë-Vranisht and Lukovë. It lies between the Ceraunian Mountains and the Albanian Ionian Sea Coast and is part of the Albanian Riviera. The traditionally perceived borders of the Himarë region gradually shrank during the Ottoman period, being reduced to the town of Himarë and the villages of the coastline (Bregdet in Albanian), generally including only Palase, Dhermi, Pilur, Kudhes, Vuno, Ilias and Qeparo.
VloraVlora ou Vlorë est une municipalité portuaire et une station balnéaire d'Albanie. Elle est située dans la baie de Valona, sur la mer Adriatique, à ( par la route) au sud de Tirana. Sa population s'élevait à en 2011. Les forêts de Zvërnec s'étendent sur le territoire de la commune et forment une zone protégée ; la colline de Vuno et la grotte des Pirates y sont aussi des zones protégées. Vlorë est l'une des villes les plus anciennes de l'Albanie. Elle a été fondée au appelée Aulon, une de trois colonies de la côte d'Illyrie, mentionnée pour la première fois par Ptolémée.
