Islands
Poor connections turn villages in northern Albania into a sort of islands, especially in winter. It's a wild and beautiful region, suffering from poverty and massive depopulation however: new projects are trying to relaunch the local economy, as Francesco Martino reports.
Over millennia, the Strofades islands hosted the mythical Harpies, Aeneas, and several monks and saints, but are now inaccessible and their heritage is crumbling. Fabrizio Polacco made it to there, and was captured by the peace and history of these Greek isles.
More from the news: what neoliberalism means for the Turkish society; an interview with Romano Prodi on Albania's crisis in the 1990s; and, from Georgia, the story of Mariam, 21, shepherd and student and an article on gambling, a real plague in the country.
