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Roots Earth in Korça: audio stories about 15 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 15 places in Korça, Albania, in Europe. The Korça stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Korça, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 15 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates and their local names. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: korca.md

The 15 places in Korça with audio stories

In the order the app shows them, with the local name after the English one where the catalogue carries one.

  1. The Old Bazaar of Korçë (Pazari i Vjetër i Korçës)
  2. The Orthodox Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ (Katedralja Ortodokse Ngjallja e Krishtit)
  3. The Mirahor Mosque (Xhamia e Mirahorit)
  4. The National Museum of Education (Muzeu Kombëtar i Arsimit)
  5. The National Museum of Medieval Art (Muzeu Kombëtar i Artit Mesjetar)
  6. The Archaeological Museum of Korçë (Muzeu Arkeologjik i Korçës)
  7. The Bratko Museum (Muzeu Bratko)
  8. The Vangjush Mio House Museum (Shtëpia-Muze Vangjush Mio)
  9. The Gjon Mili Museum of Photography (Muzeu i Fotografisë Gjon Mili)
  10. The Andon Zako Çajupi Theatre (Teatri Andon Zako Çajupi)
  11. Republika Boulevard (Bulevardi Republika)
  12. The Old Town of Korçë (Qyteti i Vjetër i Korçës)
  13. The Panoramic Tower of Korçë (Kulla Panoramike e Korçës)
  14. Birra Korça
  15. The Kamenica Tumulus (Tuma e Kamenicës)

Is there an audio guide for The Old Bazaar of Korçë?

Yes. The Old Bazaar of Korçë has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 15 Korça places in the app, at 40.6175, 20.774444. Every one of the other 14 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Korça

Open Roots Earth and choose Korça. The city has its own map of places with all 15 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 15 places in Korça, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 15 places in Korça, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. The Old Bazaar of Korçë

Local name
Pazari i Vjetër i Korçës
Coordinates
40.6175, 20.774444
In one line
Korça's Ottoman trading quarter, built between the 15th and 16th centuries and rebuilt after the great fire of 1879, where stone inns, neoclassical arcades, and serenades live together on the cobblestones.

2. The Orthodox Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ

Local name
Katedralja Ortodokse Ngjallja e Krishtit
Coordinates
40.6158, 20.7808
In one line
The Orthodox cathedral that closes the view down Korça's tree-lined boulevard, built after the fall of communism over the memory of an earlier church demolished by the regime, a testimony to the religious revival that passed through the country after 1990.

3. The Mirahor Mosque

Local name
Xhamia e Mirahorit
Coordinates
40.615833, 20.775278
In one line
The oldest mosque in Korça, built by Iljaz Bej Mirahori in the late 15th century on the traces of a Byzantine church, damaged under communism and rebuilt in recent decades.

4. The National Museum of Education

Local name
Muzeu Kombëtar i Arsimit
Coordinates
40.6168, 20.7799
In one line
In a civic house from the 1840s, where on 7 March 1887 the first Albanian school opened, today stands the museum that preserves the birth of national education.

5. The National Museum of Medieval Art

Local name
Muzeu Kombëtar i Artit Mesjetar
Coordinates
40.612353, 20.786708
In one line
A modern building on Fan Noli Boulevard that preserves thousands of icons, wood-carved iconostases, and liturgical objects from the churches of southeastern Albania, one of the richest collections of Byzantine and post-Byzantine religious art in the Balkans.

6. The Archaeological Museum of Korçë

Local name
Muzeu Arkeologjik i Korçës
Coordinates
40.615279, 20.781457
In one line
Set in 2 traditional Korça houses from around 1870, this museum preserves about 1,200 objects that descend from the prehistoric age of Maliq to the Hellenistic and Roman civilizations.

7. The Bratko Museum

Local name
Muzeu Bratko
Coordinates
40.612708, 20.784628
In one line
A museum of Asian art in the center of Korça, opened according to the wish of collector Dhimitër Boria, where Japanese kimonos, Chinese altars, and his photographs intertwine with the city's cosmopolitan profile.

8. The Vangjush Mio House Museum

Local name
Shtëpia-Muze Vangjush Mio
Coordinates
40.615971, 20.77825
In one line
The house where landscape painter Vangjush Mio lived and worked, today a museum and cultural monument in Korça, where his studio, furniture, and works preserve the trace of a life devoted to color.

9. The Gjon Mili Museum of Photography

Local name
Muzeu i Fotografisë Gjon Mili
Coordinates
40.616651, 20.77921
In one line
Inside the former town hall of the 1930s, a building with an Italian spirit, this museum is dedicated to Gjon Mili, the photographer of Albanian origin for the American magazine LIFE, a pioneer of stroboscopic photography who froze and multiplied movement in the image.

10. The Andon Zako Çajupi Theatre

Local name
Teatri Andon Zako Çajupi
Coordinates
40.618688, 20.776764
In one line
Korça's theater, with a troupe founded around the 1950s and a modern building fully rebuilt in 2016, bears the name of National Awakening poet Andon Zako Çajupi and today hosts the Comedy Festival in the central square.

11. Republika Boulevard

Local name
Bulevardi Republika
Coordinates
40.616434, 20.780663
In one line
The main axis of Korça, laid out at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and lined with linden trees, where facades, cafes, and the evening stroll keep alive the name the city gave itself: Albania's Little Paris.

12. The Old Town of Korçë

Local name
Qyteti i Vjetër i Korçës
Coordinates
40.6175, 20.774444
In one line
The residential quarters behind the boulevard and bazaar, where 19th-century stone houses and neoclassical villas preserve the traces of trading Korça, some carefully restored, others wrinkled by time and the departure of their residents.

13. The Panoramic Tower of Korçë

Local name
Kulla Panoramike e Korçës
Coordinates
40.630673, 20.784282

14. Birra Korça

Coordinates
40.6112, 20.7907
In one line
The oldest beer factory in Albania, founded in 1928 by an Italian-Albanian partnership, which passed from private ownership to communist nationalization and to post-1990s privatization without ever interrupting production.

15. The Kamenica Tumulus

Local name
Tuma e Kamenicës
Coordinates
40.543889, 20.726667
In one line
A large earthen mound near the village of Kamenica, where generations of graves were layered one over another from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, an entire cemetery, now cut into sectors, that shows ritual before it shows architecture.

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