Monuments

Unveiled in 2010 as part of the global celebrations surrounding the 200th anniversary of the birth of Poland’s most famous composer and located in a...

This three-metre-tall, roughly hewn statue commemorates Fan Noli (1882-1965), one of Albania’s most revered (and, in some circles, controversial)...

A modest statue of the Skopje-born, ethnic Albanian Mother Teresa (Nënë Tereza, 1910-1997) stands in the southeast corner of the square named after...

Part of Albania’s ongoing attempts to un-erase certain aspects of its uncomfortable recent past and come to terms with its violent Communist-era...

Gjergj Kastrioti (1405-1468), known as Skanderbeg in English and Skënderbej in Albanian, is the only historical figure whom all Albanians agree was a...

One of 20 or so monuments unleashed on the city as part of Albania’s centenary independence celebrations in 2012, this quite frankly pompous...

A veritable treasure trove of possible hidden meanings, the Communist-era Unknown Partisan shakes his fist at the Albanian Parliament building in the...