Albania is today celebrating Independence Day. It became independent from the Ottoman Empire on November 28, [...]

The frugal traveler Matt Gross arrives in Tirana and encounters surreal street scenes and finds Albania to be a country of contradictions to the extent that he calls it a deeply weird [...]

The Times calls Albania the most mysterious country in Europe. The country has gone through a long isolation. First during the communist era, and later because of the Balkan wars. [...]