Antigonia (Chaonia)
Antigonia, also transliterated as Antigonea and Antigoneia, was an ancient Greek city in Chaonia, Epirus, and the chief inland city of the ancient Chaonians.
Antigonia, also transliterated as Antigonea and Antigoneia, was an ancient Greek city in Chaonia, Epirus, and the chief inland city of the ancient Chaonians. It is located just south of the village of Saraqinisht, Gjirokastër County, Albania.
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Worth seeing in and around Antigonia (Chaonia)
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Mali i Lunxhërisë
Lunxhëri is a massif located in Gjirokastër municipality, in southern Albania. It forms part of the Shëndelli–Lunxhëri–Bureto mountain chain, extending approximately 25 km from Gryka e Këlcyrës to Gryka e Selckës, in a general northwest-southeast orientation.
5.1 km · mountain in Albania · Wikipedia - 02Kordhocë bridge
The Kordhocë Bridge is an Ottoman Turkish stone arch bridge in the village of Kordhocë in Albania and about two kilometers south of Gjirokastër. It spans the Drino river at a maximum height of about 7 meters.
5.2 km · Ottoman bridge in Southern Albania · Wikipedia - 03St. Elijah's Church, Stegopull
St. Elijah's Church is a church in Stegopull, Gjirokastër County, Albania.
3.1 km · cultural Monument in Albania · Wikipedia
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Getting to Antigonia (Chaonia)
- Airports
- Corfu Ioannis Kapodistrias (CFU), 60 km · Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle (OHD), 129 km · Tirana Mother Teresa (TIA), 153 km
- Stations
- Gjirokastër Airport, 5.9 km
- Kerkyra (Corfu) → Antigonia (Chaonia)581 km · quickest by air, 6h 25m · €120–180
- Thessaloniki → Antigonia (Chaonia)579 km · quickest by air, 5h 3m · €140–210
- Kavala → Antigonia (Chaonia)606 km · quickest by air, 7h 11m · €150–220
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No local-transport research exists yet for Antigonia (Chaonia)
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Antigonia (Chaonia). What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBuses and minibuses are going to Tirana (1,000 leke) every hour from around 07:00 until 13:00, then there is a bus at 14:30 and a night bus leaving at 00:00 (it arrives in Tirane at 05:45 near Skanderbeg Square).
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Next door to Antigonia (Chaonia)
- Saraqinishtvillage in Gjirokastër, Albania1.9 km
- Kordhocëvillage in Gjirokastër, Albania5.3 km
- Stegopulvillage in Gjirokastër, Albania2.5 km
- Qestoratvillage in Gjirokastër, Albania3.7 km