This beautiful building is a classic Balkan inn with a ground floor bar and rooms upstairs that for decades was one of Albania's most famous cafés. Intellectuals, revolutionaries and artists alike united and argued over cups of Turkish coffee. It has been standing empty for years due to an ownership dispute, and is in dire need of renovation before it crumbles and loses its great potential. The café's importance as a place to exchange news and gossip is confirmed by the five old trees outside that are still used by the locals to pin up death notices, sometimes with colour photos attached. Shkodra can't afford to lose even more of its cultural heritage, and it's a crying shame that the Grand Café is left to rot like this.