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…

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…

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…