20 Sights in Tirana, Albania (with Map and Images)
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Fortress of Justinian or simply known as Tirana Castle is a castle in Tirana, Albania. Its history dates back before 1300 and is a remnant from the Byzantine-era. The fortress is the place where the main east–west and north–south roads crossed, and formed the heart of Tirana. The current fortification has three known towers and it is undergoing a process of restoration, for touristic purposes. Inside the fortified walls of the former fortress, there are many buildings that can be visited, including restaurants, hotels, and cultural institutions.
2. The Unknown Soldier
The Unknown Soldier is a war memorial statue in Tirana for the soldiers that fell in the struggle against the Italian invaders during Second World War. The statue is located near the Albanian parliament and the Tomb of Kapllan Pasha. It was placed by the Albanian communists: For its construction, the 350-year old Sulejman Pasha Mosque built by the founder of the capital Sulejman Bargjini was destroyed. The sculpture features a soldier with a raised fist and rifle, struggling forward.
3. Presidential Palace
The Presidential Palace, formerly the Royal Palace and popularly known as the Palace of Brigades, is the official residence of the president of Albania. The palace was commissioned by King Zog I of the Albanians to serve as his main official residence.
4. Clock Tower
The Clock Tower of Tirana, was built in 1822 in Tirana, Albania by Et'hem bey Mollaj, a Bejtexhinj poet who also finished the Et'hem Bey Mosque next to the clock tower. Watchmaster Ismail Tufina was the first to assemble the Tirana clock mechanism in 1822. It is a monument of culture of first category, approved on 24 May 1948.
5. Pyramid of Tirana
The Pyramid of Tirana is a structure and former museum located in Tirana, the capital of Albania. It opened as a museum in 1988 and became a conference center in 1991 following the collapse of Communism. During the 1999 Kosovo War, the building was used as a NATO base. In 2018, a new project was unveiled that would turn the pyramid into a youth IT center for Creative Technologies with a focus on computer programming, robotics, and start ups under the name of TUMO Center Tirana. The renovated structure, transformed by MVRDV, was opened to the public in May 2023.
6. Bunk'Art
A bunker with 5 floors under the earth was built between 1972 and 1978, with 106 and from an Assembly hall, where objects used by former communist leaders in the 76'-80's are exhibited, located in the area known as Shish Tufina, in Tirana. The supreme commander of the armed forces in the bunker-building era (1972-1978) was Enver Hoxha. In the era of bunker building, prime minister was Mehmet Shehu, who, in the capacity of minister of defence and the inspiration of the plan for the bunkerization of Albania, had cherified the entire construction of the structure. The 2014 anti-nuclear bunker has been turned into a museum and is called Bunk'Art.
7. Kisha Ortodokse Autoqefale e Shqipërisë
The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, commonly known as the Albanian Orthodox Church or the Orthodox Church of Albania, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church. It declared its autocephaly in 1922 through its Congress of 1922, and gained recognition from the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1937.
8. National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania
The National Theatre of Albania was the main theatre in Tirana, Albania. In March 2020, the National Theatre of Albania was selected by Europa Nostra among the 7 most endangered monuments in Europe, as an exceptional example of modern Italian architecture from the 1930s and one of the most prominent cultural centers in Albania, facing impending threat of demolition. On 17 May 2020, the National Theatre building was demolished.
9. Tirana Zoo
Zoopark Tirana is a public zoo located in Tirana, Albania. It is the only zoo of its kind in the country. Built during 1960–1961, the zoo is concentrated in an area of 6.09 ha in the southern part of the city, between the Grand Park and the Botanical Gardens.
10. DEBATIK
The Pioneers of Enver was a pioneer movement functioning in Albania during its communist period. Formed as Debatik, an acronym for United Boys of Communist Ideas on 10 February 1942, the movement continued as Organization of Pioneers. After the Second World War, it was supervised by the Labour Youth Union of Albania, the youth wing of the Party of Labour of Albania.
11. The World Headquarters of the Bektashi Order
The World Headquarters of the Bektashi or Bektashi World Center is the international headquarters of the Bektashi Order, a Sufi order. It is located on Dhimitër Kamarda Street at the eastern edge of Tirana, the capital of Albania. It serves as the centre of the Albanian Bektashi Order. The site is proposed to form the territory of the Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order.
12. Dajti Castle
Dajti Castle is a 1.12 hectares archaeological site in Albania, comprising the ruins of a Roman fortification and several dwellings. It belongs to late antiquity, probably having been built over Illyrian foundations. It lies at 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) altitude on top of a hill, west-side of Mount Dajti, close to Tirana. It was discovered in 1963 and eventually was inscribed in the list of the Cultural Monuments of Albania. In 2008 a three-year restoration project began, aiming to conduct further archaeological searching and surveys and to improve the nearby infrastructure for visitors and tourists.
13. Tyrbe of Kapllan Pasha
The Kapllan Pasha Tomb is a Muslim Türbe built in 1817 in the center of Tirana, Albania. The government of Albania declared it a Cultural Monument of the first category in 1948. Its 8 columns are made of carved stone, placed on an octagonal-shaped stone base, and capped with octagonal shape capitals. The former Ottoman ruler of Tirana was interned here in the 19th century, but his remains were later repatriated to Istanbul, Turkey.
14. House of Leaves - The Museum of Secret Surveillance
The Museum of Secret Surveillance, also known as House of Leaves is a historical museum in Tirana, Albania. It opened on 23 May 2017 in the building that served as the Sigurimi's headquarters during the communist era.
15. Xhamia e Kokonozit
The Mosque of Mahmud Agha Kokonozi or New Bazaar Mosque is a mosque in Tirana, Albania. It is an Ottoman-era mosque built in 1750 and one of the few mosques that survived the communist dictatorship under the Hoxhaist regime.
16. Xhamia e Tabakëve
The Tanners' Mosque is a historic mosque located near the Tanners' Bridge in Tirana, capital of Albania. Built in the neighborhood of the handicraft-trade Tanners' guild around the seventeenth century in the Ottoman Empire, it was damaged by a lightning shot but continues to function thanks to improvements made by the family Resmja which even today continues to care for.
17. Frédéric Chopin
The Fryderyk Chopin Monument in Tirana – a monument by the Polish sculptor Andrzej Renes, funded by the International Fryderyk Chopin Foundation, was unveiled on 12 November 2003 by Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
18. National Theatre for Children
The National Puppet Theatre in Tirana was created in 1950 by a professional troupe and performed 500 performances every year, all over the country. Performances of the National Children's Theatre are used with wire puppets, puppeteers, masks, shadow theatres and pantomime, as well as performances with actors.
19. House of painter Sali Shijaku
The house of painter Sali Shijaku is located in Tirana on the street "Siri Kodra". It is an old house with typical Tirana architecture. Its construction is 1400. The house serves as a traditional restaurant and art gallery where 100 works in painting are exhibited. It is considered the oldest house in Ballkan.Me the first time in 350 AD the house of painter Sali Shijakut was a Turkish hospital. The trees in that house were called traur and painted with petrol or oil. This house is called a cultural monument. On the first floor was the waiting room that took place various activities near the chimney and the place was filled with rare and special paintings. On the second floor there were only rooms to sleep in but also the place was filled with paintings and portraits. Many objects in that house were called morjental motives. There was an old ark with dark paintings where the bride's pajas were placed there.
20. Tirana Archeological Museum
The National Archaeological Museum is the national archaeological museum in Tirana, Albania opened on 1 November 1948. It was the first museum founded after the second World War in the country. It is located on the east of the Mother Teresa Square near the University of Tirana.
Wikipedia: National_Archaeological_Museum,_Tirana (EN), Website
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