ATLAS · WORLD HERITAGE · ALBANIA
World Heritage Sites in Albania
Albania has 4 sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List — 2 cultural, 1 natural, and 1 mixed. Below: how they split by type, and the headline sites. From UNESCO’s official list, snapshot 2026-06-22.
By heritage type
Notable sites in Albania
A spread of the country’s heritage — the rarer mixed and natural sites first, then its earliest inscriptions.
A superlative natural phenomenon, Lake Ohrid provides a refuge for numerous endemic species of freshwater fauna and flora dating from the Tertiary period. Situated on the shores of the lake, the town of Ohrid is one of the oldest human settlements in Europe. Built mainly between the 7th and 19th…
Shared across: Albania · North Macedonia
This transnational property includes 93 component parts in 18 countries. Since the end of the last Ice Age, European Beech spread from a few isolated refuge areas in the Alps, Carpathians, Dinarides, Mediterranean and Pyrenees over a short period of a few thousand years in a process that is still…
Shared across: Albania · Austria · Belgium · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Croatia · Czechia · France · Germany · Italy · North Macedonia · Poland · Romania · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Switzerland · Ukraine
Inhabited since prehistoric times, Butrint has been the site of a Greek colony, a Roman city and a bishopric. Following a period of prosperity under Byzantine administration, then a brief occupation by the Venetians, the city was abandoned in the late Middle Ages after marshes formed in the area.…
Berat and Gjirokastra are inscribed as rare examples of an architectural character typical of the Ottoman period. Located in central Albania, Berat bears witness to the coexistence of various religious and cultural communities down the centuries. It features a castle, locally known as the Kala, m…