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Korça In Your Pocket

Korça In Your Pocket

A proud, cultured town high in the Albanian hinterlands, Korça (pronounced KOR-cha) is a world away from Tirana, and is indeed close to Greece in more than one way. Locals cross the border to nearby Kastoria and further afield to Thessaloniki and Athens for the latest fashion, religious festivals, education, jobs and family visits, and many of them are fluent in both Greek and Albanian.

Korça is known for its pretty girls, its tradition of seranades, and good food. Although small, it has quite a few good sights, including an excellent icon museum, a bustling bazaar, a fantastic Byzantine-era painted church, a top-rate beer brewery and a great beer festival. In the immediate surroundings, Pogradec has a lovely lakeside setting and Voskopoja and Dardha make for great daytrips into the mountains.

The Korça In Your Pocket city guide is the first English language city guide to this fascinating destination.

The Korça In Your Pocket  miniguide, a fold-out city guide complete with maps, is available for free at hotels in Korça and Pogradec, and at Tirana's tourism information centres, and the guide is also for sale for 200 lek in Tirana's main bookshops. If you're abroad, you can order a printed copy here. For the thrifty and impatient, we also have the full contents available as a free PDF Instant Guide, downloadable here.

If you have any comments, please let us know at tirana[@]inyourpocket. com. Enjoy Korça.

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OUR Korça HIGHLIGHTS

  • Orthodox Cathedral

    Orthodox Cathedral
    Korça's Orthodox Cathedral of the Ressurection was completely rebuilt in 1992 after the previous church on this site, St. George cathedral, was destroyed by the Communist authorities in 1968. No
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  • Medieval Art Museum

    Medieval Art Museum
    Korça's best museum has an excellent collection of 6,500 medieval and modern icons from Southern Albania, as well as 1,500 other objects, of which some 200 icons and 50 metal objects are on disp
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  • Moska

    Moska
    One of Korça's best-looking bars, a first floor affair with silver air ducts, stylish wooden walls and large balcony windows overlooking the main street. Named Moscow, it has paintings of great
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  • Regency

    Regency
    The 'American-style' Regency is one of few self-proclaimed three-star hotels in Albania actually living up to the standards. With good rooms and a quiet corner location in the city centre, it's often
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Latest Korça Comments

  • Vasport
    Very nice restaurant.[...]
  • Vila Themistokli
    Very nice, cosy atmosphere, house quality meals, fire place, quality draught beer. Ask Ilir, the owner, to prepare for you chicken with beer sauce - delicious. Interiour pictures dedicated to Mr. Themistokli, one of the key persons fighting for inde[...]
  • Vangjush Mio Museum
    He's the best Albanian painter...[...]
  • Rinia Park
    I wish you could have the picture bigger or at least click it and becomes bigger...

    EDITOR: Written information is more important than photos on this site - but if you hadn't sent a false email address, we would have happliy emailed you a large version of the old men in Youth Park.[...]
  • Korça food
    i have been to albania/korce and iv eaten a lot of there food and its so nice i love it i think i have tryed about everythink as i was there for 4 months but the best bit of food i really do like is lakror and sukulash they r really nice i will be g[...]
  • Art Studio Vladimir Kaçaku
    I never saw it...[...]
  • Panda Bar
    Nice description.[...]
  • Taverna Antoneta
    We ate there in June 2009 and the place is lovely, the lamb good and the raki the best I drank in 17 days in Albania.[...]
  • Vila Sidheri
    The place where tradition meets elegance![...]
  • Niko Dent
    Niko is a good dentist. He did a great job on my teeth.[...]
  • Vila Sidheri
    Exellent! A beautiful place![...]
  • Grand
    Nice place to stay in Korca. Employees are friendly and most of the rooms have a interesting overview on the stunning square. No wi-fi connection. You can buy there an useful book guide about Korca and its surroundings (500 leks, in Albanian and Eng[...]
  • Gold
    I was there in April 2009, it's a cheap (2200 leks for a single room, breakfast included) and comfortable place to stay. Furthermore, it's close to the park. Minus: rooms are small and there's no internet access but you'll find a cybercafe in the sa[...]
  • Panda Bar
    The beer garden of Birra Korça is unique in the region (at least in Albania and the neighbouring MK and GR areas) and will attract especially people culturally attached to those kind of places. The local variety of qofte (which I cannot spell -[...]
  • Regency
    One might add that the service is positively diametral to the low income of the staff, from reception to cleaning lady and the café. Only good experiences, they were the main reason to return to the place when being in town.[...]