IMG_8635 - Red and yellow Fascist-style buildings from the Fascist Italian rule of Albania, 1930 to 1943
IMG_8636 - Our Albania: L. Ohrid, Librazhd, and Elbasan; up to Tirana and Shkodër; and west through Muriqan into Montenegro
IMG_8638 - Skanderbeg Square: Our Plaza Hotel, the town clock, the Et'hem Bey mosque, and Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu, a national hero who resisted the Ottomans
IMG_8640 - The National History Museum in Skanderbeg Square
IMG_8641 - This dome is the entrance to a 5-floor, 106-room, underground, anti-nuclear bunker for Hoxha and his cabinet.
IMG_8642 - Twenty-four rooms now house the "Bunk'Art 2" museum of WWII and the Communist era of Enver Hoxha.
IMG_8643 - A bright cheery building right beside the dark history of the Bunk'Art Museum
IMG_8644 - The historic Kombëtar National Theatre from 1939 was beloved. Under protest, it was demolished in May 2020 for a big new theatre project.
IMG_8645 - Pleasant pedestrian streets around Skanderbeg Square
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IMG_8648 - Possibly a wedding photo. I heard that they often take them in special places the day before the wedding.
IMG_8652 - From our hotel room, the Ottoman town clock tower next to the Et'hem Bey mosque was to tell prayer and traders' shop-closing times.