Though Albania has a lot of coast on the Adriatic for a small country, as the Lighthouse Directory says, there isn't a lot of information about lighthouses there. I've featured one before this. Most of them are not the traditional tower and light shape that lighthouse fans are accustomed to. At least this one has a tower.
The name is a bit confusing: The Directory uses Kep i Treporteve (kep means cape), but you'll find more pictures of it with Zvërnec, though not many. It's near Vlorë. Here's the map to show where it is. Zoom IN to see the interesting situation of it (and also one of the pictures shows it). Apparently the nearby monastery is also something for tourists to see.
This is what the Directory says about it:
"Date unknown. Active; focal plane 18 m (59 ft); white flash every 5 s. 10 m (33 ft) 2-stage stucco-covered stone tower; upper portion octagonal, lower portion square. The lighthouse is unpainted. A building near the lighthouse may be a keeper's house. ... Located on the northeast side of the entrance to the Gji i Vlorës, about 8 km (5 mi) east of Sazan Island and the same distance northwest of Vlorë."
There are three of the few pictures that are findable of this lighthouse below.
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