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Roots Earth in Vlora: audio stories about 34 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 34 places in Vlora, Albania, in Europe. The Vlora stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Vlora, 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 34 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: vlora.md

The 34 places in Vlora with audio stories

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

  1. Flag Square (Sheshi i Flamurit)
  2. National Museum of Independence (Muzeu Kombëtar i Pavarësisë)
  3. Muradie Mosque (Xhamia e Muradies)
  4. Ethnographic Museum of Vlora (Muzeu Etnografik i Vlorës)
  5. Historical Museum of Vlora (Muzeu Historik i Vlorës)
  6. Eqerem Bey's House (Shtëpia e Eqerem Beut)
  7. Kuzum Baba Tekke (Teqeja e Kuzum Babait)
  8. Old Town of Vlora (Qyteti i Vjetër i Vlorës)
  9. Clock Tower (Kulla e Sahatit)
  10. Vlora Lungomare (Lungomare i Vlorës)
  11. Skela
  12. Kanina Castle (Kalaja e Kaninës)
  13. Monastery of Saint Mary, Zvërnec (Manastiri i Shën Mërisë, Zvërnec)
  14. Narta Village (Fshati Nartë)
  15. Narta Lagoon (Laguna e Nartës)
  16. Red Mosque (Xhamia e Kuqe)
  17. Catholic Cathedral of Vlora (Katedralja Katolike e Vlorës)
  18. Vlora Bazaar (Pazari i Vlorës)
  19. Monument of the Agonothetes (Apollonia); locally Monumenti i Agonotetëve (Apolonia)
  20. Odeon (Apollonia); locally Odeoni (Apolonia)
  21. Library, Prytaneion and Temple of Artemis (Apollonia); locally Biblioteka, Pritaneu & Tempulli i Artemisit (Apolonia)
  22. Nymphaeum, the Water Sanctuary (Apollonia); locally Nimfeu, Shenjtërorja e Ujit (Apolonia)
  23. Greco-Roman Theater (Apollonia); locally Teatri greko-romak (Apolonia)
  24. Sacred Terrace and Stoa (Apollonia); locally Tarraca e Shenjtë & Stoaja (Apolonia)
  25. City Walls and Gates (Apollonia); locally Muret & Portat e Qytetit (Apolonia)
  26. Monastery and Church of Saint Mary (Apollonia); locally Manastiri & Kisha e Shën Mërisë (Apolonia)
  27. Archaeological Museum (Apollonia); locally Muzeu Arkeologjik (Apolonia)
  28. Stadium (Amantia); locally Stadiumi (Amantia)
  29. Temple of Aphrodite (Amantia); locally Tempulli i Afroditës (Amantia)
  30. Acropolis and City (Amantia); locally Akropoli & Qyteti (Amantia)
  31. City Gate and Walls (Amantia); locally Porta dhe Muret e Qytetit (Amantia)
  32. Early Christian Basilica (Amantia); locally Bazilika Paleokristiane (Amantia)
  33. Ancient Orikum, the Ancient Port (Orikumi antik, Porti i Lashtë)
  34. Triport, the Lost Port (Triporti, porti i humbur)

Is there an audio guide for Flag Square?

Yes. Flag Square 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 34 Vlora places in the app, at 40.470556, 19.490278. Every one of the other 33 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 Vlora

Open Roots Earth and choose Vlora. The city has its own map of places with all 34 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 34 places in Vlora, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 34 places in Vlora, 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. Flag Square

Local name
Sheshi i Flamurit
Coordinates
40.470556, 19.490278
In one line
The heart of Vlora and the cradle of the Albanian state, the square where independence was proclaimed in 1912, where Ismail Qemali rests and where the bronze monument erected by the communist regime simultaneously holds the Ottoman, national and dictatorial layers of the same piece of land.

2. National Museum of Independence

Local name
Muzeu Kombëtar i Pavarësisë
Coordinates
40.452199, 19.485273
In one line
A two-story house from the 19th century, once a port quarantine, which became the seat of the first Albanian government after the declaration of independence in 1912 and then the country's first national museum.

3. Muradie Mosque

Local name
Xhamia e Muradies
Coordinates
40.469049, 19.490932
In one line
Built in the 16th century with alternating stone and brick walls, the Muradie Mosque is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Vlora, an Ottoman work near the square where the Albanian state was later born.

4. Ethnographic Museum of Vlora

Local name
Muzeu Etnografik i Vlorës
Coordinates
40.47224, 19.49171
In one line
Traditional town house of the 19th century in Vlora, once the headquarters of the Labëria patriotic club of Ismail Qemali, then turned into an ethnographic museum that preserves clothes, tools and memories of Labë life.

5. Historical Museum of Vlora

Local name
Muzeu Historik i Vlorës
Coordinates
40.47254, 19.49084
In one line
A civil building of the beginning of the 20th century near the Flag Square, where a museum founded in the 60s narrates Vlora from the Illyrians to the War of 1920, through terrestrial and underwater finds.

6. Eqerem Bey's House

Local name
Shtëpia e Eqerem Beut
Coordinates
40.469837, 19.490869
In one line
Two-story dwelling of the end of the 19th century, the surviving part of the palatial complex of the Vlora family and the house of the memoirist Eqerem bey Vlora, turned into a museum and library after 1944.

7. Kuzum Baba Tekke

Local name
Teqeja e Kuzum Babait
Coordinates
40.467831, 19.492988
In one line
Bektashi tekke on the hill above the bay of Vlora, dedicated to Kuzum Baba, a spiritual center mentioned since the 17th century, closed during the atheist campaign and reopened after the fall of communism.

8. Old Town of Vlora

Local name
Qyteti i Vjetër i Vlorës
Coordinates
40.469049, 19.490932
In one line
The historical core of Vlora, a network of narrow alleys and two-story houses with Ottoman-Balkan fabric, where on 28 November 1912, Albania's independence was proclaimed.

9. Clock Tower

Local name
Kulla e Sahatit
Coordinates
40.473021, 19.490851
In one line
The clock-faced stone tower in Vlora's old shopping district, erected between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, with an undocumented exact date, that still measures the rhythm of the day above the bustling markets of the city.

10. Vlora Lungomare

Local name
Lungomare i Vlorës
Coordinates
40.442011, 19.495913
In one line
Vlora's coastal promenade, the largest urban intervention in the city's history, stretches some 4 kilometers over a coastline where port, commerce and the military once met, and where today palm trees and bike lanes cover an old layer of work and departure.

11. Skela

Coordinates
40.442011, 19.495913
In one line
The coastal quarter of the port of Vlora, where once stood a 16th century Ottoman fortress demolished in 1906, today its place is occupied by the stadium and the port, on buried traces.

12. Kanina Castle

Local name
Kalaja e Kaninës
Coordinates
40.444676, 19.522248
In one line
On a hill overlooking the Bay of Vlora, Kanina Castle preserves the layers of a fortress inhabited from Illyrian antiquity to the Ottoman era, Byzantine, Norman, Angevin and Albanian noble families have held it in turn.

13. Monastery of Saint Mary, Zvërnec

Local name
Manastiri i Shën Mërisë, Zvërnec
Coordinates
40.517222, 19.4025
In one line
Orthodox monastery on a pine island in the Narta lagoon, stone church with Byzantine influence, probably erected in the 13th century, which under communism turned from a place of prayer into a political prison.

14. Narta Village

Local name
Fshati Nartë
Coordinates
40.499167, 19.457222
In one line
On the edge of the Narta lagoon lies a village inhabited since classical antiquity, where one of the northernmost pockets of Greek speaking in the Balkans still survives, among the salt flats, the island monastery and the many layers of memory that this lowland preserves.

15. Narta Lagoon

Local name
Laguna e Nartës
Coordinates
40.535, 19.425
In one line
Coastal lagoon of about 41 square kilometers near Vlora, Vjosë-Nartë protected landscape with industrial saltworks that turn pink in summer, the island of Zvërnec and over 48,000 wintering birds.

16. Red Mosque

Local name
Xhamia e Kuqe
Coordinates
40.471536, 19.492773
In one line
The mosque with a red facade in Kanina, rebuilt by Neshat Pashaj in the 1920s, damaged during the atheist campaign of 1967 and brought back to life after the fall of communism.

17. Catholic Cathedral of Vlora

Local name
Katedralja Katolike e Vlorës
Coordinates
40.47042, 19.48884
In one line
Vlora's Catholic Cathedral, a 20th century building with a yellow facade and art-nouveau influences, testifies to the small but enduring Catholic presence in a city that maintains both Orthodox and Muslim heritage.

18. Vlora Bazaar

Local name
Pazari i Vlorës
Coordinates
40.472616, 19.490266
In one line
A lively bazaar in the old town of Vlora, a few steps from the clock tower, where open stalls and covered corridors sell vegetables, olive oil and nuts, daily life that continues, regime after regime, in the city where the Albanian state was born.

19. Monument of the Agonothetes (Apollonia)

Local name
Monumenti i Agonotetëve (Apolonia)
Coordinates
40.7208, 19.471
In one line
The Roman civic monument that dominates the central terrace of Apollonia, today a reconstructed facade with Corinthian columns, was erected in the last quarter of the 2nd century CE by Quintus Vil Crispin Furi Proculus in memory of his brother.

20. Odeon (Apollonia)

Local name
Odeoni (Apolonia)
Coordinates
40.721, 19.4712
In one line
A small covered theater, the odeon of Apollonia, erected in the 2nd century BCE and later adapted, where the semicircular rows of the cavea, the orchestra and the stage testify to a hall where the council met and performances were given to about 300 people.

21. Library, Prytaneion and Temple of Artemis (Apollonia)

Local name
Biblioteka, Pritaneu & Tempulli i Artemisit (Apolonia)
Coordinates
40.7205, 19.4714
In one line
East of the Monument to the Agonotetes, a single complex, the hall with alcoves carved into the wall that read "library," the magistrates' building, a small temple of Artemis, Roman on Hellenistic terraces, where names are as much interpretation as stone.

22. Nymphaeum, the Water Sanctuary (Apollonia)

Local name
Nimfeu, Shenjtërorja e Ujit (Apolonia)
Coordinates
40.7202, 19.4706
In one line
A large rectangular fountain and water sanctuary from the 3rd century BCE, dedicated to nymphs, fed by underground springs and supported by massive walls at the foot of the sacred terrace, one of Apollonia's greatest pre-Roman monuments.

23. Greco-Roman Theater (Apollonia)

Local name
Teatri greko-romak (Apolonia)
Coordinates
40.7212, 19.4704
In one line
The semi-circle of seats eroded into the slope and the stones of the stage, the theater of Apollonia, erected in antiquity and later altered under Rome, within the sacred space of the city, still show where all its public life assembled.

24. Sacred Terrace and Stoa (Apollonia)

Local name
Tarraca e Shenjtë & Stoaja (Apolonia)
Coordinates
40.7207, 19.4716
In one line
2 long columned stoas, built between the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE, surrounded the sacred area and the agora, while on this terrace rises the obelisk, a solitary memorial pillar raised again above the old stones.

25. City Walls and Gates (Apollonia)

Local name
Muret & Portat e Qytetit (Apolonia)
Coordinates
40.7198, 19.47
In one line
The Hellenistic walls that enclosed the city above the plateau, with gates controlling the entrances, remain today as scattered fragments of stone and at least one visible gateway, the boundary where Greek Apollonia later became the great Roman city.

26. Monastery and Church of Saint Mary (Apollonia)

Local name
Manastiri & Kisha e Shën Mërisë (Apolonia)
Coordinates
40.7196, 19.4718
In one line
A Byzantine monastic complex built on the ruins of ancient Apollonia, with its frescoed St. Mary's church and iconostasis, its medieval monastic buildings and courtyard, where the stones of the ancient city were reinterpreted to support a Christian home.

27. Archaeological Museum (Apollonia)

Local name
Muzeu Arkeologjik (Apolonia)
Coordinates
40.7195, 19.4719
In one line
The Archaeological Museum of Apollonia, established in the mid-20th century inside the monastery of Saint Mary, collects sculptures, inscriptions and ceramics from the ancient city and its surroundings, housing pagan finds under the arches of a church building.

28. Stadium (Amantia)

Local name
Stadiumi (Amantia)
Coordinates
40.3793, 19.70673
In one line
A stadium carved straight into the hillside, the 60-meter track, the rows of seats following the slope, the ovoid shape still preserved, where the Illyrian city of Amantia gathered for games, according to a custom that belonged to the Greek world.

29. Temple of Aphrodite (Amantia)

Local name
Tempulli i Afroditës (Amantia)
Coordinates
40.37646, 19.6946
In one line
The foundations of the Hellenistic temple dedicated to Aphrodite, the main sanctuary of Amantia, west of the acropolis, still trace the building's footprint on the ground, along with a few architectural blocks left on the grass.

30. Acropolis and City (Amantia)

Local name
Akropoli & Qyteti (Amantia)
Coordinates
40.37905, 19.70022
In one line
The upper city of Amantia, Illyrian and Hellenistic, inhabited since the 5th century BCE and later Romanized, lies on the hill with lines of walls and remains of public and residential buildings enclosed within fortifications.

31. City Gate and Walls (Amantia)

Local name
Porta dhe Muret e Qytetit (Amantia)
Coordinates
40.3794, 19.7014
In one line
The Hellenistic fortifications of Amantia, with at least 2 city gates, still stand here and there, where a recovered gate on the west side and parts of walls trace the line that once surrounded and enclosed the entire ancient city on the hill.

32. Early Christian Basilica (Amantia)

Local name
Bazilika Paleokristiane (Amantia)
Coordinates
40.37662, 19.69489
In one line
Within the walls of ancient Amantia lie the foundations of an early Christian basilica, probably from the fifth or 6th century CE, a line of stones marking the moment when the old city turned to Christianity.

33. Ancient Orikum, the Ancient Port

Local name
Orikumi antik, Porti i Lashtë
Coordinates
40.3214, 19.4561
In one line
On Amantian Illyrian land, in the southeastern corner of the Gulf of Vlora, Greek settlers built Orikum, a port and trading center that still preserves defensive walls, building foundations, and only partially excavated port traces.

34. Triport, the Lost Port

Local name
Triporti, porti i humbur
Coordinates
40.505, 19.4044
In one line
On the promontory near the Narta Lagoon, northwest of Vlora, lies a 3-walled fortified port city, partially submerged under the sea, where former basins and sunken structures bear witness to centuries of Mediterranean life, from Greek antiquity to Roman times.

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