Three UNESCO World Heritage inscriptions:
- Butrint (1992, extended 1999), Greek theatre, Roman forum, late-antique baptistery, Byzantine basilica and Venetian fortress, stacked in one lagoon site.
- Gjirokastër (2005) and Berat (2008), inscribed together as exceptional Ottoman-era towns. Berat is the city of a thousand windows; Gjirokastër the city of stone.
Albania also holds a share of two transnational natural inscriptions: the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests (Gashi, Rrajca, 2017) and the Ohrid region (Pogradec, Lin Peninsula, added 2019).
The vernacular
The kulla, a fortified stone tower-house built for a family living under blood feud, with gun-slits in place of ground-floor windows. Architecture as a direct print of the Kanun. The lock-in tower at Theth still stands.
Research by ARBËR, the Living Museum of Albania. Published facts are verified or presented as open debate.