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Lëkurësi Fortress

🇦🇱 Albania

Lëkurësi Fortress in Albania
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Lëkurësi Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Lëkurësit) is a ruined Ottoman Turkish castle near Sarandë, southern Albania. The castle is on a strategic hill point overlooking the town of Sarandë, southeast of the town centre. From here one can control the whole town as well as the islands of Ksamil.

Text adapted from “Lëkurësi Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lëkurësi Fortress ranks #2,191 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #11 of the 22 mapped in Albania. See how Albania compares in the castle statistics.

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