waterfall
Bogovë Waterfall
A waterfall in a wooded gorge above the village of Bogovë in the Osum valley, reached by a short walk from a village car park.
33 km · about 40 min drive
Korçë County, Albania · Europe
Voskopojë sits on the route: 15 minutes from Lekas, 34km from Osum Canyon.
Voskopojë is a town located in Korçë County, Albania. With a population of 0, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Voskopojë sits in Albania, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Tirane time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Voskopojë to your route.
Voskopoja or Moscopole (Albanian: Voskopojë; Aromanian: Moscopole, with several other variants; Greek: Μοσχόπολις, romanized: Moschopolis) is a village in Korçë County in southeastern Albania. During the 18th century, it was the cultural and commercial center of the Aromanians. At its peak, in the mid 18th century, itRead more
hosted the first printing house in the Ottoman Balkans outside Constantinople, educational institutions and numerous churches. The town's institutional and ecclesiastical life was conducted primarily in Greek, the language of Orthodox high culture in the region, while Aromanian was the everyday language of its inhabitants. The town's commercial networks and printing house gave it significant exposure to Western European intellectual currents.
One view attributes the decline of the city to a series of raids by Muslim Albanian bashi-bazouks. Moscopole was initially attacked and almost destroyed by those irregular groups in 1769, in retaliation for the participation of the residents in the preparations for a Greek revolt supported by the Russian Empire. Its decline culminated with the destruction of 1788 and the flight of its population. Moscopole, once a prosperous city, was reduced to a small village by Ali Pasha of Ioannina's campaign. According to another view, the city's decline was mainly due to the relocation of the trade routes in central and eastern Europe following these raids. The decline pushed parts of the population to leave, making Moscopole the original homeland of much of the Aromanian diaspora.
Today Moscopole, known as Voskopojë, is a small mountain village, and along with a few other local settlements is considered a holy place by local Orthodox Christians. Aromanians no longer form a majority of the population, with incoming Christian and Muslim Albanians having further settled in the village, especially after World War II. Still, Moscopole has held a key place within Aromanian nationalism, and many Aromanian writers have written about Moscopole in a mythical and utopian way, mourning the city's destruction, an event which gave rise to comparisons between Moscopole and Jerusalem and potrayals such as a "New Jerusalem", "New Athens" or "Arcadia of the Balkans". Greek historians have claimed the city's population as Greek, while Romanian historians have claimed it as Romanian. However, ethnic affiliations at the time were fluid; when the refugees from Moscopole moved to Austria in 1769, they declared themselves to be Macedonians, which was a geographic identity rather than an ethnic one.
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Voskopojë is located in Korçë County, Albania, Europe. The coordinates are 40.6331 latitude, 20.5889 longitude.
Voskopojë has a population of approximately 0 people, making it a town in Albania.
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waterfall
A waterfall in a wooded gorge above the village of Bogovë in the Osum valley, reached by a short walk from a village car park.
33 km · about 40 min drive
natural wonder
A 13 km slot canyon carved by the Osum river near Çorovodë, with sheer 80 m walls, waterfalls and rim-side viewpoints along the mountain road south of Berat.
34 km · about 40 min drive
cathedral
A 10th-century monastery on a headland at the southern end of Lake Ohrid near the Albanian border, with springs, boats and a large car park.
34 km · about 40 min drive
mountain pass
A serpentine road climbs over the Galičica massif between Lakes Ohrid and Prespa, topping out near 1,600 m with rare twin-lake panoramas inside Galičica National Park.
41 km · about 45 min drive
national park
A mountain park on the ridge between Lakes Ohrid and Prespa, crossed by a paved road with viewpoints over both lakes at once.
44 km · about 50 min drive
natural wonder
A tranquil lake shared by three countries on Greece's northwestern border, home to pelican colonies and Byzantine island churches.
45 km · about 50 min drive
natural wonder
Free open-air hot springs beside the Ottoman-era Katiu Bridge at the mouth of the Lengarica Canyon near Përmet: half a dozen stone-ringed pools around 26-30°C, soakable year-round with canyon walls rising behind.
45 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
A fishing village on a peninsula jutting into Lake Ohrid on the Albanian shore, its lanes hung with drying fishnets and vines; a hilltop early-Christian basilica keeps 6th-century floor mosaics. Part of the lake's UNESCO listing.
48 km · about 55 min drive
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