Ghosts of War

Category: Albania

  • Repurposing Albania’s Nuclear Bunkers Part II

    The BunkArt project has established two museums/art galleries within a couple of Tirana, Albania’s Cold War-era nuclear bunkers. After having a fascinating time exploring BunkArt 2, I set off on a sunny winter’s day to walk the hour-and-a-bit from central Tirana to BunkArt 1.

  • Repurposing Albania’s Nuclear Bunkers Part I

    Beneath the central business district of Tirana, Albania, a museum inside a nuclear bunker gives an insight into the paranoid reign of dictator Enver Hoxha

  • House of Leaves, Albania

    After taking control, dictator Enver Hoxha wasted no time in building a terrifying state security apparatus that imprisoned the people of Albania within their nation’s borders, and sought to control all aspects of their lives.

  • Albania’s Bunkers

    Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha was convinced foreign powers would invade, and ordered the ‘Bunkerization of Albania’. The scale of the program is mind-boggling: the construction of 221,143 bunkers was planned.