The view from a room in the Tirana International Hotel, Tirana, Albania.

The view from a room in the Tirana International Hotel, Tirana, Albania.

Submitted by:  JM van Elk.  (Photo may not be copied or used in any way without JM van Elk’s permission).

“This hotel was once the highest building in all Albania, for long the last Stalinist country in Europe. It was the official hotel for guest of the Stalinist regime and rumour has it that there are bunkers and escapetunnels under the hotel, build by the paranoid leaders of Albania…”

Tirana International Hotel & Conference Centre

Skanderbeg Square 8
Tirana, Albania
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    The view from a room in the Tirana International Hotel, Tirana, Albania. “This hotel was once the highest building in all Albania, for long the last Stalinist country in Europe. It was the official hotel for guest of the Stalinist regime and rumour has it that there are bunkers and escape tunnels under the hotel, build by the paranoid leaders of Albania…”