Square, Statue

Just by looking at the map you will notice a large white area right in the middle of Tirana, which is Skanderbeg Square(Sheshi Skënderbej). The largest square in the whole of Albania and the centrepiece of the whole city, it covers an area of almost 40,000m2. [btn "Book a hotel in the centre of Tirana" https://www.booking.com/city/al/tirana.en-gb.html?aid=2380460;label=p-tirana-skanderbeg] The square is dominated by the equestrian statue of…

Museum

The most visited attraction in Tirana is the unusual Bunk'Art Museum, which has two branches in the city. The first of these is located under the cable car up the Dajt mountain and is known as BUNK'ART 1. [btn "Search the cheapest hotels in Tirana" https://www.booking.com/city/al/tirana.en-gb.html?aid=2380460;label=p-tirana-bunkart1] The Bunk'Art 1 museum takes you to an extraordinary fallout shelter complex built in 5 underground floors in…

Museum

The second branch of the very popular Bunk'Art attraction can be found right in the centre on the south-eastern edge of Skanderbeg Square. The much larger Bunk'Art 1 is located in the east of Tirana. [btn "Search the cheapest hotels in Tirana" https://www.booking.com/city/al/tirana.en-gb.html?aid=2380460;label=p-tirana-bunkart2] The Bunk'Art 2 museum also uses the premises of a former bomb shelter, this time a much smaller one in the centre of…

Cable car, Lookout

The Dajt National Park, surrounding the eponymous massif, practically starts at the eastern edge of Tirana and is a very popular place for day trips out of the city. [btn "The 10 best hotels in Tirana" https://www.booking.com/city/al/tirana.en-gb.html?aid=2380460;label=p-tirana-dajti] If you're short on time, however, you can hit the slopes of Dajti in just a few dozen minutes, thanks to the modern Dajti Express cable car, which will take you…

Cathedral

The main Orthodox cathedral in Albania stands in Skanderbeg Square in the middle of Tirana and is the largest Orthodox church in the Balkans and the 3rd largest in Europe. [btn "The 10 best hotels in Tirana" https://www.booking.com/city/al/tirana.en-gb.html?aid=2380460;label=p-tirana-katedrala] Apart from its size, the church impresses with its modern but very tasteful appearance. The cathedral was opened in 2012 on the 20th anniversary of the…

Mosque, Historic building

The oldest mosque in Tirana is one of the few monuments from the Ottoman period that survived the communist regime. More precisely, the Edhem Bey Mosque is one of the few monuments in Tirana that has survived the Ottoman Empire. [btn "The 10 best hotels in Tirana" https://www.booking.com/city/al/tirana.en-gb.html?aid=2380460;label=p-tirana-ethem-bey] Completed in 1819, the mosque was closed during the communist rule and reopened in 1991. Of…

Mosque

The Grand Mosque of Tirana, also known as the Namgazh, is a Muslim shrine whose construction only began in 2010 and was completed in 2023. [btn "The 10 best hotels in Tirana" https://www.booking.com/city/al/tirana.en-gb.html?aid=2380460;label=p-tirana-namagazh] Tirana's Namgazh Mosque is the largest in the entire Balkans. The decision to build it was taken in the late 1990s, when religious buildings decimated by the long communist regime were…

Park

On hot summer days, or simply when you're tired of the city's hustle and bustle, head to the dam in the southern part of Tirana, around which is the Great Tirana Park, otherwise known as Parku i Madh Kodrat e Liqenit, or "Park of Hills and Lakes". [btn "Book your hotel in Tirana in advance" https://www.booking.com/city/al/tirana.en-gb.html?aid=2380460;label=p-tirana-park] In the park, you will walk along several kilometres of beautiful…

The remains of the old Justinian's fortress in the form of fortification walls and several archaeological remains of towers can be found on the southern edge of Skanderbeg Square. [btn "10 top hotels in Tirana" https://www.booking.com/city/al/tirana.en-gb.html?aid=2380460;label=p-tirana-hrad] The fortress dates back to before 1300, when Albania was ruled by the Byzantine Empire and the city of the time was built around this fortress. A roughly…

Historic Bridge

What you would miss in other cities is one of the main sights in Tirana, a city poor in preserved monuments. We are talking about the small bridge of tanners (Ura e Tabakëve) over the Lana river, which no longer flows under the bridge, but is tamed by an artificial channel a few metres away. Search for the cheapest accommodation in Tirana The bridge was built during the 18th century during the Byzantine Empire and got its name from the…

Street

Tirana's main representative street is Dëshmorët e Kombit (translated as the Avenue of the Martyrs of National Liberation), which leads from Skanderbeg Square to the university and the modern football stadium. Search for the cheapest accommodation in Tirana This street is mainly lined with government buildings, ministries, the presidential palace, the prime minister's residence or faculty buildings. Tourists are attracted especially by its…