European route 852

European route 852
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Basic data
States :	Albania North Macedonia
Course of the road Albania (0)  Tirana as Krraba Pass Elbasan Librazhd Përrenjas Qafë Thana as North Macedonia as Struga as M5 Ohrid

The European route 852 leads from Tirana ( Albania ) via Elbasan (Albania) and Struga ( North Macedonia ) to Ohrid (North Macedonia). From Elbasan to Struga the E 852 is part of the Pan-European Traffic Corridor VIII and from Elbasan to Ohrid the route largely corresponds to the ancient Via Egnatia .

course

The E 852 begins in the center of Tirana at Skanderbeg-Platz , crosses the Boulevards Jeanne d'Arc and Bajram Curri and leads out of the city via the Elbasaner Straße leading to the south as SH 3 . It then leads over the Krraba Pass into the Elbasan Qark and the district of the same name . The first town after the pass is Bradashesh , where it turns east-northeast and after a few kilometers reaches Elbasan.

A new bypass road bypasses the center of the city to the south. The E 852 continues as SH 3 through the Shkumbin valley in an east-northeast direction to Librazhd . There it turns to the southeast, in order to lead again at Qukës in an easterly direction to Përrenjas . A few kilometers behind Përrenjas the ascent to the Qafë Thana pass begins . At the top of the pass, the SH 9 branches off , the course of which the E 852 now follows east to the north Macedonian border three kilometers away . Here the E 852 now leads as M4 to the town of Struga at the northern end of Lake Ohrid . Shortly afterwards, in Podmolje , the M5 branches off and the E 851 follows this together with the E 65 in a south-easterly direction to Ohrid on the north-east side of the lake, where the E 852 finally ends.

See also

• List of European roads