Supported by A centuries-old tradition in which women declared ... the coastal city of Durres. Image Keepsakes at Ms. Rakipi’s one-room apartment, including a statue of Albania’s onetime ...

It’s half-term in the UK and my family and I are on the stunning Albanian coast ... a two-minute walk from Durres’s Golem Beach. We’ve come to expect crowds when we go away during school ...

Then we turn left onto Rruga Kalase, and a hot day in 21st-century Albania melts ... fringe areas of beach directly to the south-east. But Durres’s amphitheatre revels in a story of many ...