Streetart Map Tirana – Urban Art Archive
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Tirana Backpacker Hostel
On the one hand it was quite funny, but as well a bit shocking how many people have been strangely surprised, even frightened or just thought „WTF are these guys doing again? Are they totaly crazy-stupid?“ – when we said we will do a trip through Albania. I know you totaly shouldn´t trust the pictures and ideas you get infused by the medias, because it´s mostly total crap, but it was still a very new experience for us and we realized during the road trip how wrong even our view has been. It opened our eyes in a lot of ways and i really like that. Albania was amazing, an absolutely underestimated country, that people (for now) still observe in a completely wrong way.
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Streetart Durrës
We had already brought you some graffiti from Albania, the works were mostly from the capital Tirana, Korça and what you found on the way. A particularly village with very special paintings, however, is the coastal town of Durrës. It’s not just graffiti, but elaborate façade drawings. Here some of the stories are painted on the wall and provided with pictures, each work has a relationship to the homeowners and creators – which are often the same.
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Butrint – Antique Ruins at Lake Butrint and Vivar Channel
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Skotis Hostel – Berat
Do you need some nice advice for a short trip or long term holiday destination? We already wrote something about a roadtrip through Albania and presented you the country as a new secret hint (Let´s go to Albania). The New York Times voted the country in the newcomer list of soonly be in demand places of interest. Our trip was definitly classic, we learned a lot, had fun and it was (still) quite cheap. The whole country is paved with UNESCO heritages, one of the most impressive cities is certainly Berat. We stood there for a few days in Skotis Backpacker Hostel.
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Tirana´s Creative Pirates
There is a lot going on at the moment in Albania and overall in the capital Tirana. You see construction all over the country, buildings and new infrastructure just pop up everywhere from the ground, you just can see the development during the process. The country receives a lot of input, support and money from the EU especially for restoring and renovating the UNESCO heritages, for new roads and new facilities, as well tourism-oriented projects, to get the economy running. They are building everywhere you look. And they are not just behaving like there would be some construction, it really gets build and this happens fast.
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Apollonia – Antique epirotic center in Qark Fier
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KS Flamurtari Vlora – Football Stadium
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Gjirokastër – llyrian Fortress in the mountains
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Albanian Cuisine
Here is a little photo collection of the delicious and awesome culinary meals we could eat during our journey through Albania. In Tirana we could go to some upper class restaurants, but the best meals and the most interessting ones we just got in the villages, from the auntie-places, in real places where they still cook with passion. I think each of us gained during the trip several kilos… We spend a lot of time in the car driving and as well in relaxing eating places. Like everybody knows, the best dinner, soups and cakes you get at your grandma´s table.
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Syri i Kaltër – Blue Eye Water Spring
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Durrës – Historic Epidamnos and Dyrrachium
After we had left Tirana our first stop was the big city Durrës at the Adriatic coast of Central Albania. Durrës is the most important port city in the country and therefore an economic centre. In terms of population, Durrës is the second largest city in the country after the capital Tirana, 30 km away, and the official seat of the Qark of the same name. Durrës and Tirana together form a metropolitan region. We could find a lot of nice street art here, but the historic buildings from antiquity and the Middle Ages, mixed with modern architecture, are also quite astonishing.
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Korçë – Trading Center to the Eastern Balkans
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Fortress Kalaja e Rozafës
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Berat – City of a Thousand Windows
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Streetart Korçë
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Pogradec – Southwestern Shore of Lake Ohrid
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Vlora – Adria Street of Otranto
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Gjirokastër – UNESCO World Heritage
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Road to Sarandë – Sea gulf of the Ionian Sea
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Streetart Shkodër
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Elbasan – Bashika and capital of the Quarks
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Kurum – Lost Iron Steel Facilities
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Legendary Saranda Hostel – Tomi´s Tag Art Paradise
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Shkodër – Capital of the Northern Quark
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The Babameto House – Center for Heritage and Culture
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Bredhi i Hotovës – National Park Drive
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