Albanian Riviera town as well as the islands of Ksamil, Corfu Island and the Butrint Lagoon. Porto Palermo Castle located a few kilometers south of Himarë in southern Albania. It is situated in the bay of Porto Palermo. Huffington Post ranked Porto Palermo first among 15 Undiscovered European Destinations for 2014. Albanian Riviera The Albanian Riviera ( — ), also popularly known as Bregu, is a coastline along the Northeastern Ionian Sea in the Mediterranean Sea encompassing the districts of Sarandë and Vlorë in Southwestern Albania. It forms an important section of the Albanian Ionian Sea Coast dotted with the villages of
Albanian Regiment (France) that had resettled in the islands after losing conflicts against Ali Pasha in the Pashalik of Yanina and another one that comprised 500 Greeks. After the French army took over the administration of the area the Albanians were enrolled as the Albanian Regiment () and the Greek refugees as the Battalion of Greek Infantry Skirmishers () sometimes known as the Indigenous Battalion of Ionian Islands () and after the enrollment of Albanian refugees also as the Pandours of Albania (). In the Albanian Regiment later local Greeks, Italian and Dalmatians would be recruited but the desired total number of 3,254