🇦🇱 Albania
10 best places in Tirana
Tirana is a vibrant, fast-changing capital where brightly painted communist-era apartment blocks meet the trendy cafés of the Blloku district and the leftover bunkers of a paranoid dictatorship.
Skanderbeg Square
The city's grand central square, anchored by an equestrian statue of national hero Skanderbeg.
Et'hem Bey Mosque
A delicate late-18th-century mosque with painted frescoes that miraculously survived the atheist regime.
National History Museum
Albania's largest museum, fronted by a huge mosaic and spanning antiquity to the present day.
BunkArt
A contemporary art and history museum housed inside dictator Enver Hoxha's giant underground bunker.
Blloku district
Once the sealed-off enclave of the party elite, now the city's trendiest strip of bars and boutiques.
Pyramid of Tirana
A futuristic former Hoxha museum, now reborn as a creative and tech hub.
Grand Park of Tirana
A sprawling green space around an artificial lake, a favorite escape for locals.
Dajti Ekspres cable car
One of the longest cable cars in the Balkans, climbing to Mount Dajti above the city.
Tanners' Bridge
A stone Ottoman-era bridge, a quiet remnant of the city's old trading days.
Mullixhiu
A landmark modern-Albanian restaurant from a chef who returned home after cooking at Noma.
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