Discover Kukës
in one place.

A city that learned
to start over.

In 1976, the old Kukës sank under the rising waters of the Drin to make room for a hydroelectric lake. The new city rose on the hill above — and a generation later, it earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for sheltering nearly half a million Kosovar refugees in 1999.

Today Kukës is the gateway to the Albanian Alps: a region of trout-filled lakes, limestone summits, working villages, and a hospitality so generous you'll never quite finish the coffee.