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Village in Tirana, Albania

Gërdec

Gërdec is a village in Albania that is located about 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) north-west of the capital of Tirana.

Gërdec
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The place

Gërdec is a village in Albania that is located about 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) north-west of the capital of Tirana. It is part of the municipality of Vorë. It was the site of the explosions at a military base on 15 March 2008, causing the deaths of 26 people and injuring over 100.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gërdec

One place 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.

  1. 01
    Prezë Fortress

    The Prezë Castle is a medieval castle in Prezë, Albania. The mosque inside the castle, built in the 1500s, is one of the oldest mosques in Albania.

    3.6 km · cultural heritage monument of Albania · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Gërdec

Airports
Tirana Mother Teresa (TIA), 7 km · Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle (OHD), 96 km · Podgorica / Podgorica Golubovci Airbase (TGD), 109 km
Stations
Vorë Railway Station, 2.2 km
  • Ohrid → Gërdec
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · $12–16
  • Podgorica → Gërdec
    119 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · $12–17
  • Brindisi → Gërdec
    167 km · quickest by road, 25h 52m · €200–280
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gërdec

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 Gërdec. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    228 km
  2. 02
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    268 km
  3. 03
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    322 km
  4. 04
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    419 km
  5. 05
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    431 km

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Around it

Next door to Gërdec

Gërdec is 18 km from Tirana, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Vorëtown of Albania3.1 km
  • Palaqvillage in Tirana, Albania3.3 km