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Roots Earth in Pogradec: audio stories about 15 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 15 places in Pogradec, Albania, in Europe. The Pogradec stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Pogradec, 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: pogradec.md

The 15 places in Pogradec with audio stories

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

  1. Lake Ohrid and the Pogradec Promenade (Liqeni i Ohrit dhe Shëtitorja e Pogradecit)
  2. Promenade Park (Parku i Shëtitores)
  3. The House of Lasgush Poradeci (Shtëpia e Lasgush Poradecit)
  4. Toplec Quarter (Lagjja Toplec)
  5. Naim Frashëri Street and the Old Bazaar (Rruga Naim Frashëri dhe Pazari i Vjetër)
  6. Pogradec Museum (Muzeu i Pogradecit)
  7. Church of Saint Mary (Kisha e Shën Marisë)
  8. Cathedral of the Resurrection (Katedralja e Ngjalljes)
  9. Pogradec Mosque (Xhamia e Pogradecit)
  10. Pogradec Castle (Kalaja e Pogradecit)
  11. Fishermen's Port (Porti i Peshkatarëve)
  12. Drilon Springs (Burimet e Drilonit)
  13. Tushemisht Village (Fshati Tushemisht)
  14. Lin and the Early Christian Basilica (Lini dhe Bazilika Paleokristiane)
  15. Royal Tombs of Selca e Poshtme (Varret Mbretërore të Selcës së Poshtme)

Is there an audio guide for Lake Ohrid and the Pogradec Promenade?

Yes. Lake Ohrid and the Pogradec Promenade 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 Pogradec places in the app, at 40.903436, 20.657842. 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 Pogradec

Open Roots Earth and choose Pogradec. 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 Pogradec, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 15 places in Pogradec, 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. Lake Ohrid and the Pogradec Promenade

Local name
Liqeni i Ohrit dhe Shëtitorja e Pogradecit
Coordinates
40.903436, 20.657842
In one line
One of Europe's oldest lakes, rich in endemic species and its koran trout, along whose shore Pogradec's promenade stretches with parks, statues of poets, and an amphitheater that recalls the Illyrian tombs of Selcë.

2. Promenade Park

Local name
Parku i Shëtitores
Coordinates
40.90345, 20.65787
In one line
A chain of lakeside parks where the sculptures of the poets Lasgush Poradeci and Mitrush Kuteli meet an amphitheater of columns modeled on the Illyrian royal tombs of Selcë, modern literature set upon ancient stone.

3. The House of Lasgush Poradeci

Local name
Shtëpia e Lasgush Poradecit
Coordinates
40.90293, 20.656022
In one line
The house where Llazar Gusho was born, the poet who took the city's name and became Lasgush Poradeci, stands in the old Toplec quarter, while his bronze statue gazes at the lake he sang all his life.

4. Toplec Quarter

Local name
Lagjja Toplec
Coordinates
40.90345, 20.65787
In one line
Pogradec's oldest residential quarter, with stone-and-tile houses more than 2 centuries old, climbs above the lakeshore as the birthplace of the poet Lasgush Poradeci and the writer Mitrush Kuteli, and as home to one of the first schools in the Albanian language.

5. Naim Frashëri Street and the Old Bazaar

Local name
Rruga Naim Frashëri dhe Pazari i Vjetër
Coordinates
40.9031725, 20.6549913
In one line
Naim Frashëri Street is the old commercial axis near the Toplec quarter, where shops beneath 19th-century Ottoman houses are being brought back to life today through the restoration of the cobblestones and facades.

6. Pogradec Museum

Local name
Muzeu i Pogradecit
Coordinates
40.900658, 20.660477
In one line
A small museum in Pogradec's old quarter, where Illyrian and ancient finds from Pelion and the surrounding fortresses meet the evidence of the wars of the 20th century, 2 layers of time under the same roof.

7. Church of Saint Mary

Local name
Kisha e Shën Marisë
Coordinates
40.902717, 20.652146
In one line
The old Orthodox church of Pogradec, raised with stone walls and a tiled roof in the old quarter, bears witness to a long Christian presence in Ohrid's ecclesiastical orbit and to survival beyond the atheist campaign.

8. Cathedral of the Resurrection

Local name
Katedralja e Ngjalljes
Coordinates
40.9001539, 20.6619255
In one line
The Orthodox Cathedral of the Resurrection, raised after the fall of communism under the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, brings together modern forms with the domes and crosses of tradition, a work of faith restored upon the memory of religion once banned by law.

9. Pogradec Mosque

Local name
Xhamia e Pogradecit
Coordinates
40.902661, 20.655582
In one line
The central mosque of Pogradec, with its minaret rising over the city beside Lake Ohrid, carries at once the trace of Ottoman heritage, of the atheist campaign of 1967, and of the religious return that came after the fall of the dictatorship.

10. Pogradec Castle

Local name
Kalaja e Pogradecit
Coordinates
40.908181, 20.646132
In one line
The fortified hill about 205 meters above Lake Ohrid, where an Illyrian settlement from the 5th century BCE has left defensive walls and traces of an acropolis, perhaps above the ancient city of Enkelana.

11. Fishermen's Port

Local name
Porti i Peshkatarëve
Coordinates
40.90345, 20.65787
In one line
The small pier on the western shore of Lake Ohrid, where licensed fishermen keep alive the fishing of the endemic koran trout, an ancient craft that today coexists with seasonal bans and a monitoring point for the protection of the fish.

12. Drilon Springs

Local name
Burimet e Drilonit
Coordinates
40.899832, 20.713082
In one line
A complex of karst springs near Tushemisht, whose waters come from Lake Prespa, transformed into a park with channels, small bridges, and boats, and once the favorite retreat of Enver Hoxha.

13. Tushemisht Village

Local name
Fshati Tushemisht
Coordinates
40.900278, 20.719167
In one line
A village on the shore of Lake Ohrid at the mouth of Drilon, with centuries-old stone houses, a mosaic discovered near the Church of Saint Pandelimon, and the statue of Teto Ollga, the memory of a film that made the place known.

14. Lin and the Early Christian Basilica

Local name
Lini dhe Bazilika Paleokristiane
Coordinates
41.066111, 20.638611
In one line
A fishing village on a peninsula of Lake Ohrid, where on the hill an early Christian basilica of the 6th century preserves one of the most beautiful mosaic floors of Late Antiquity in the Balkans.

15. Royal Tombs of Selca e Poshtme

Local name
Varret Mbretërore të Selcës së Poshtme
Coordinates
40.983333, 20.516667
In one line
5 monumental Illyrian tombs carved directly into the rock above the Shkumbin valley, with facades that imitate the front of a temple, the necropolis of Pelion, an Illyrian royal residence between the 4th and 1st centuries BCE, about 40 kilometers from Pogradec.

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