A new independent travel publication

Albania, reported properly.

Albania SmartGuide is a new English-first, multilingual guide to the country — cities, the Ionian coast, the Accursed Mountains, and the practical details that actually change a trip.

How to use this guide

Start with a city if you land in Tirana or a beach if you are heading straight to the Riviera. Every article links to the next place on a real itinerary — not a dump of unrelated posts.

English sits on the original addresses such as /cities/tirana/. Italian, German, French and Spanish use /it/, /de/, /fr/ and /es/ in front of the same path, with hreflang so search engines know they are translations, not copies.

What we cover first

Year one is Albania only: Berat, Gjirokastra, Saranda, Valbona, museums and the roads between them.

This publication is not the 2012 mobile app and not a continuation of that business. It is a new guide that keeps useful old URLs so travellers still land on the right topic.