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1 Review and 8 Opinions Breakfast here is FABULOUS - the best I had in Albania - and the staff are extremely helpful. (A...
JLBG Says: Albania has been a main battlefield during the first war between France and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Korcë has a French cemetery with the graves of 640...
JLBG Says: Korcë has long been well known for its rugs and carpets. When we were in Korcë in 1988, we were lucky to visit a carpet workshop. Our guide had a hard time...
Out of Korc?, 1988 forbidden photo
JLBG Says: Our guide had warned us that we should not take any photography of anything military. Close to Korc?, he told us that this was the Albanian Air Army. I feel...
JLBG Says: On our way back to Korcë, we visited a boar farm. They had a few boars that they raised. The photo shows a huge female that had half a dozen of a few month old...
JLBG Says: While we drank at the spring, our Albanian guides had began to talk with the lumbermen who made big signs telling that we should come and have a raki with them....
JLBG Says: After we had walked for maybe one hour, we arrived in a clearing where we found five guys, lumbermen, is seemed, at rest. They were smoking, drinking raki and...
JLBG Says: Though our group was only 10, besides our French courier, we had a very nice French speaking Albanian guide and a second guide, an Albanian engineer in forestry...
Out of Korcë, deers in the forest
JLBG Says: Obviously, our guide in second, the engineer in forestry, knew well the spot and he lead us to a place where we should see deers. We stayed quiet for less than...
JLBG Says: This photo shows a grocery. If you enlarge the picture, you will see that the window has bottles of wine (all of the same state brand), cans of jam (all of the...
JLBG Says: A little further, I reached a square that was being repaved (first photo). I spotted a six branches star carved on top of the entrance of one of the houses...
JLBG Says: The Greek influence in Korcë is obvious. Greece has occupied the city on several occasions in the past and a part of the population is Greek speaking. When...
Korcë, the "Morava kinema" in 1988
JLBG Says: I do not know if the Morava cinema, standing in the city center still exists but in 1988 it had a strange 1920 look. It had of course on top the traditional...
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