TIRANA, Albania (AP) Dozens of soccer fans have been deported back to Italy following violent clashes in Tirana ahead of Wednesday’s Europa Conference League final, Albania’s deputy head of police said.
Transforming Albania’s monument to a communist dictator
July 3, 2021
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 dictator.
The Pyramid of Tirana is often listed as one of the top tourist sites in the Albanian capital.
Visitors, however, are usually disappointed to discover that it is in fact an abandoned building covered in graffiti.
Soon, however, this will change, as renovation work to transform the brutalist construction into a modern youth centre with a focus on IT is already begun.