--- title: "Gërdec – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Gërdec, Albania: Gërdec is a village in Albania that is located about 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) north-west of the capital of Tirana. Nearby: Prezë Fortress.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gerdec" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gerdec.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/G%C3%ABrdec_village_1_%28OSCAL19_trip%29.jpg/3840px-G%C3%ABrdec_village_1_%28OSCAL19_trip%29.jpg" --- 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/G%C3%ABrdec_village_1_%28OSCAL19_trip%29.jpg/3840px-G%C3%ABrdec_village_1_%28OSCAL19_trip%29.jpg) Gërdec · Wikimedia Commons 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%ABrdec), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prez%C3%AB_Castle) 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. Go there ## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ohrid-to-gerdec) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ohrid&to=G%C3%ABrdec) - Podgorica → Gërdec 119 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · $12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/podgorica-to-gerdec) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Podgorica&to=G%C3%ABrdec) - Brindisi → Gërdec 167 km · quickest by road, 25h 52m · €200–280 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/brindisi-to-gerdec) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Brindisi&to=G%C3%ABrdec) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=G%C3%ABrdec) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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. [Mljet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mljet) HR 9 ways of moving, 28 sources 228 km 2. [Korčula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/korcula) HR 9 ways of moving, 33 sources 268 km 3. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 322 km 4. [Mount Athos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mount-athos) GR 9 ways of moving, 21 sources 419 km 5. [Thasos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/thasos) GR 10 ways of moving, 17 sources 431 km If you know how people move in Gërdec – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cgerdec&title=G%C3%ABrdec&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fgerdec), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Gërdec Gërdec is 18 km from [Tirana](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tirana), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Vorë](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vore) town of Albania 3.1 km - [Palaq](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/palaq) village in Tirana, Albania 3.3 km [The place page for Gërdec](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/gerdec) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Albania](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-AL) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gerdec, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt