Albania on the cusp of change, chaos and civil war is the setting for the best memoir to emerge from the Balkans in decades. In March 1991, journalists from Italian TV station Rai Uno arrived in the city of Durrës, Albania, to cover the country’s...
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Covid-19 hit tourism in the Western Balkans hard, but Gazmend Haxhia, boss of Landways International, one of the region’s leading tourism companies, is confident that...
The Albanian coast offers stunning views, crystal clear waters, and some of the best value for money property deals anywhere in the Mediterranean. No wonder buyers are...
Albania’s bunkers are the country’s most enduring reminders of the brutal, surreal and quixotic rule of Enver Hoxha. For much of the 20th century, Albania was dominated...
Next on Tirana’s ambitious to-do list of urban renewal is the renovation of the city’s iconic pyramid, originally built to house a museum dedicated to a communist...
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is set to win a record third term in office after his Socialist party took around 50 per cent of the vote in a parliamentary election...
Six Western Balkan capitals – Belgrade, Skopje, Prishtina, Tirana, Podgorica and Sarajevo – and 400 trees planted simultaneously. One goal – to prove that, by taking...
How old is Tirana? One hundred, four hundred, or thousands of years old? This year the city celebrated a century as the capital of Albania, but today’s Tirana is...
On Sunday May 17, Albania’s National Theatre in Tirana was finally demolished after more than two years of protests and resistance from civil society, artists, and...
Few architectural styles are as contentious as brutalism. There are people who will say that baroque Catholic churches have just too much going on, or that the Chrysler...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Few cities in emerging Europe have changed as much over the past three decades as the Albanian capital Tirana. At first, the transformation was chaotic: hundreds of...
