Imagine an August morning, as you wake up in your beach house, walk just a few feet beyond the small courtyard and immediately see the sea. That blue steals your heart and you would never want to run away from it.
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Travel to Saranda and search for the village of Lukove. Your mornings will always be blue.
The Village of Lukova is located in the southwest of Albania, lies on two hills covered with olive and orange plantations, at an altitude of about 500 ft (150 m) above the sea and on its wide coast shelters a large number of beaches. It has a population of about 3000. It is not physically connected to the beach, but it is not far from it.
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Lukova is one of the coastal villages of Himara which has preserved almost the same urban characteristics as other villages of the province. Narrow streets, of medieval type and character, paved with stone cobblestones, on both sides of which rises the steam of houses. During the socialist period, the village was terraced and this landscape stands out even today.
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The etymology of the name Lukove, the name given to this village of the Ionian coast and the coastal province, is not excluded to come from the Slavic “luk” -a green place or dense forest. From the studies conducted on the origin and time of the founding of Lukova, it is concluded that today’s settlement belongs to the medieval period, probably in the last centuries of Byzantium 21.
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But it is thought that this terrain seems to have been an early settlement, since antiquity. The traditional clothing of men until the beginning of the 20th century, has been fustanella. While the traditional dress of the women of Lukova is the same as that of all the coastal villages. Regarding the song like that of other villages of this province is polyphony. Of particular interest are wedding and death rituals.
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