The Balkan Explorer - Experience Tirana like a Local

The Scanderbeg Square, conceived before the Second World War by Italian architect A.Brasini, became the host site of Stalin's statues, Skanderbeg and Enver Hoxha's ones, but finally only the Skanderbeg Statue is present nowadays. During this tour you will learn how the square got the modern look it has today after so many changes during the last centuries.

In the New Bazaar today there are almost all services, divided into five areas: Meat and Fish Markets, Green Markata (Fruit - Vegetables), Neutral area, Creative area, The Transit Zone is the area around the Bazaar, which has received development from the Bazaar. All areas interact and interact with each other. In the Shopping Area you can find all kinds of services, bars, traditional restaurants, hotels, street food, different cuisine trends, etc. The good news here is: we will take a short stop and a traditional coffee here ;)

The pedestrian "Murat Toptani" as a trail is of historical value and can be considered as a natural, museum and historical gallery. It traverses several monumental artifacts that make it quite historic, such as the Fortress of Tirana, the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences, the park that can be considered the country's first national park, the old National Library, and the former Political Persecutor's Building followed in the end by Tanners Bridge. Walking along the way you can find as well some of the latest touristic destinations; Kalaja e Tiranes, the National Gallery of Arts, the Residence of the Albanian Royal Family, etc.

Once known as Enver Hoxha Museum it was inaugurated in 1988 and has served as the heritage museum of Enver Hoxha till 1991. It resembles an Egyptian pyramid dedicated to the pharaons. However,from above it reveals the shape of communist star spreading its rays. Nowadays, the present state will tell you much more.