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Benja Thermal Baths (Llixhat e Bënjës): water, Kadiu Bridge, and what is established
Attributed temperature ranges, the dual naming, the undated bridge, and the limits of official data.
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Nine pieces, all of them sourced.
The journal was rewritten in full in September 2026. Fourteen thin pieces were consolidated into nine pages where every claim carries a source — and the ones without a source say so.
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Town & history
2 pieces
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City of Roses and the City Stone: the name, the symbol, and the stories
The official naming per AKT, the symbol rock, and the stories told about it — kept apart from fact.
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The Frashëri Brothers House Museum: what AKT documents
What the official attractions list establishes about the museum — and what remains to be documented.
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Water & mountains
3 pieces
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Two national parks at Përmet: the Wild Vjosa and Hotova–Dangëlli
The IUCN figures for the river park, the mountain park that resists easy figures, and where they meet.
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Rafting on the Vjosa from Përmet: the rhythm of a free river
The open valley, season-driven flows, and the checks that belong to a river without dams.
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Lengarica Canyon: what official sources establish
The national tourism agency names the canyon and the baths’ entrance; the dimensions missing from the record stay marked as such.
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Taste
2 pieces
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Gliko of Përmet: the Slow Food Presidium, two fruit lists, and the copper it boils in
What Slow Food says, what AKT says, where they disagree — and the copper pot between them.
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Reshedi and “drudhe”: the documented table of Përmet
The three names the national tourism agency gives local specialities — and the limits of what is known about them.
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Practical
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Getting to Përmet: seasons, buses, and data that does not agree
Four seasons as orientation, commercial timetables that contradict one another, and the one reliable rule: ask the day before.
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