26/08/2026
1,000+ meters above the Albanian Riviera, parked right outside an abandoned WW2 clifftop bunker facing the Adriatic toward Italy. History meets the horizon. 🇦🇱
World War II & the Greco-Italian War (1940–1944)
When Mussolini’s Italy invaded Greece from occupied Albania in October 1940, these mountain ridges became critical frontline positions for coastal artillery and machine-gun nests.
Following Italian setbacks and the subsequent German occupation (1943–1944), the heights were fortified with heavy observation posts, machine-gun emplacements, and mu*****ns storage to counter Allied naval patrols in the Ionian and disrupt local Albanian partisan resistance in the coastal villages below.
Location : Llogara Pass / Dhërmi, Vlorë
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