The Adriatic's new star: Albania's unheralded coast is opening up to tourists and British home-buyers
Albania is only a short, 45-mile hop from Italy across the Strait of Otranto — but it has always felt an age away.
Occasionally, one of our national teams plays Albania in an important football match and, yes, it was mentioned a lot for its unbridled adulation of the recently deceased comedian Norman Wisdom. But that’s about it.
However, the Balkan nation has been hiding a few secrets, not least its miles of beautiful Adriatic and Ionian coastline, and a landscape of soaring mountain ranges.
Now the country is about to open up to foreign investment, while the Albanian tourism ministry reports fast-growing numbers of overseas visitors.
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British Airways has regular flights to the capital, Tirana, which take around three hours, and the international airport has been upgraded.
‘Multi-nationals are setting up businesses in and around the capital, resulting in a need for good-quality housing for locals and expatriates — and making Tirana’s property market of particular interest to overseas investors,’ says Bernard Ellis, 90MD of British-based property company Albanian Acquisitions.
The city also has several universities and academies, ‘which give it a young population and a buzzing vibrant feel,’ says Ellis.
There is a vast new project on Tirana Lake, where Rotterdam-based architects MVRDV are planning to create new areas including an extensive lakeshore drive. A chain of parks around the lake will be the setting for homes, terraces, outside public pools, play areas — and bridges to walk over a planned ‘blue cloud’ of Jacaranda trees.,,,,,,,,,,........................
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