Hotels in TiranaBest Prices

Pastel facades, Blloku nights and a mountain on the doorstep

Albania's capital wears its history in layers: Ottoman mosque and Italian ministry buildings around Skanderbeg Square, communist-era blocks repainted in bold colour, and the Blloku quarter, closed to the public until 1991, now the city's bar district. The Dajti cable car climbs out of the sprawl to a ridge with the whole plain below it.