Saraqinisht
Saraqinisht is a small village of the former Antigonë municipality in the Gjirokastër County, southern Albania.
Saraqinisht is a small village of the former Antigonë municipality in the Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Gjirokastër. Near the village are the remains of the ancient city of Antigonea, which was founded by Pyrrhus of Epirus, and named after his wife, Antigone. Saraqinisht is inhabited by an Orthodox Albanian population and an Aromanian minority.
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Worth seeing in and around Saraqinisht
2 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.
3.3 km · mountain in Albania · Wikipedia - 02St. 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 Saraqinisht
- Airports
- Corfu Ioannis Kapodistrias (CFU), 62 km · Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle (OHD), 127 km · Tirana Mother Teresa (TIA), 152 km
- Kerkyra (Corfu) → Saraqinisht65 km · quickest by ferry, 5h 27m · €64–104
- Thessaloniki → Saraqinisht237 km · quickest by road, 6h 31m · €35–49
- Kavala → Saraqinisht365 km · quickest by road, 8h 42m · €50–70
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Saraqinisht
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 Saraqinisht. 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).
From Wikivoyage: Gjirokastër, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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