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Rozafa Castle
Crowning the 113m-high hill towering above the confluence of the Buna and Drini rivers, Shkodra's impressive top sight is the pride of the locals.... -
Buna Delta
Nature lovers or those just looking for a pleasant walk in some cool forests can head straight from the beach into the Buna Delta reservation, between Velipoja and the Buna River which forms the Montenegrin border here.... -
Shkodra poetry
As the centre of Albanian cultural life, Shkodra has attracted and inspired many writers and poets. The most famous local poet was Migjeni, although others include Filip Shiroka and Gazmend Krasniqi, all of whom are featured here with some poems.... -
Lake Koman ferry
Possibly the best trip you'll ever do in Albania is sail the Koman-Fierze ferry. Read all about it here.... -
Velipoja beach
On summer weekends it seems the whole city smacks on sunscreen and flops on the wide sandy beach at Velipoja, 34km west of Shkodra....
Shkodra In Your Pocket
While many visitors quickly breeze though the city, Shkodra’s turbulent 2400-year history has left plenty of interesting relics that make a stay in Albania’s cultural capital worthwhile.
Hundreds of years of no-nonsense religious and ethnic tolerance resulted in booming trade, witnessed by Shkodra’s grand merchants’ homes, and dozens of mosques and Catholic and Orthodox churches standing in close proximity to each other. With travel to Albania now easier than ever before, and the number of visitors to Shkodra increasing, facilities for travellers are improving rapidly, with good hotels and several excellent restaurants now established.
The Shkodra In Your Pocket online and print city guide is the first of its kind, enabling foreign visitors to get the most out of Shkodra. The guide is published by Tirana In Your Pocket in association with the Municipality of Shkodra, under the programme Local selfgovernance, driving force for development, and in partnership with UCODEP (Unity and Cooperation for Development of People) and with the financial contribution of the Italian government, Tuscany Region and GTZ.
You can view, download and print the 2006 Shkodra In Your Pocket PDF guide here for free.
We welcome all comments about the guide; please write in to shkodra@inyourpocket.com with your praise, tips, corrections and complaints. Now, as the Shkodran poet Filip Shiroka wrote, “be off to Albania on your flight, off to Shkodra, my native town!”
Enjoy Shkodra.
Note to readers: Shkodra municipality has recently renamed most streets in the city. We'll update these in our guide shortly. The landmarks remain the same, so ask the locals for hotels and sights, rather than transient things like street names, when orientating.
Latest Shkodra Comments:
Taverna Shkodrane
A marvellous place, it is magic....Lida Travel
Excellent travel partner....Venice Art mask factory
I second Rob's comments. It's a singular experience to go and see where and how these masks are produced, and then to think about how, if you're buying papier mache masks in Venice, they were probably made here....Venice Art mask factory
The mask factory is one of the coolest things to see in Shkodra. I lived there for two years and made it a point to bring visitors....Catholic Cathedral
Very nice....Al-Zamil Mosque
This information is wrong. This Mosque is Built by Sheikh Zamil Abdullah Al Zamil and it is still maintained by Al Zamil Family....