#Gjirokastër

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Gjirokastër, Albania

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03/05/2023 part2

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Argirocastro,Albania.🇦🇱

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Ali Pasha Aqueduct

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Albania, 1961, photographed by West German journalist Harry Hamm (1922-1979)

Women march at a rally in Elbasan, with banners that read: “Forward with the building of a socialist society”; “Let’s implement the historic resolutions of the Fourth Congress of the Albanian Party of Labour”; “Let’s construct socialism with a pickaxe in one hand and a rifle in the other”

Fishermen rest under ruins of ancient Butrint

Mesi Bridge, Mes (near Shkodër)

Boys at a Pioneer camp in Durrës; the banner reads “4th National Pioneers’ Spartakiad”

Skanderbeg Square, Tirana

Women sell fabric at the market in Shkodër

People gather at a beachside snack bar under portraits of Hysni Kapo and Enver Hoxha

A man leans on a carriage at the market in Shkodër

Street scene in Gjirokastër

via albanianphotography.net

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Gjirokastër, Albania

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Gjirokastër, Albania

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Marching off to face my destiny… Hello from the Castle of Gjirokastra! This castle sits on a rocky hill and overlooks the town of Gjirokastra. It was built in the 12-13th centuries. Legend says that Princess Argyro jumped from a cliff in the castle with her child to escape from the Ottomans to resist being captured. The castle was later used as a prison in the 1900s during the Communism era. Gjirokastra is home of the famous National Folk Festival which celebrates traditional Albanian folk culture. It takes place in the fall every four years. It’s so crazy and interesting to me to visit monuments that often have a dark past which nowadays are converted to museums or spaces that hold festivals and celebrations. It’s very weird to me that time is the only difference where so many events have taken place. Does anyone else have these thoughts? #chasingcrystal #femaleriders #motorcycledream #sportbikelifestyle #ladyriders #womenwhoridemotorcycles #instamotorbike #daineserider#dainesemoto #motocampingtrip #womenmotorcyclist #asianwomen #ladyridersofinstagram #scorpionhelmet #dainesejacket #motorsportlifestyle #femaleridersworldwide #gjirokaster #gjirokastër #gjirokastra #castleofgjirokastra #gjirokastracastle #albaniahistory #castlephotography #castle🏰 #castleruins #unescoworldheritagesite #unescosite #unescoworldheritagesites (at Gjirokastër) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgPaHuYoTbi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Albániaban Part II

For our last two days in Albania, we decided to head inland to the famous medieval city of Gjirokastër. This little city is on of the best preserved Ottoman towns in the Balkans and is built into the sides of the Albanian foothills. The Gjirokastër fortress looks over the little mountain town. Our accomodation was in one of the old houses that were originally home to the wealthy traders that ran the town in the middle ages. Of course, it was pretty far up the hill, and at this point in the trip, I had unfortunately earned some pretty gnarly blisters, making the walk home at night a little more than rough. But our first night there, we took it easy with a relaxing dinner in the city center and a nice glass of wine.

The next morning, we rose early to hopefully make it up the hill to the Fortress before the oppressive 40⁰+ heat could overtake us. We ate breakfast at the guesthouse--fried dough with jam and cheese--and started our ascent. At the fortress, we bought the extra ticket to the city museum, the prison museum and the arms museum. Originally built during the 6th century and then home to many Ottoman rulers in the middle ages, the castle had been turned into a prison for political dissidents during the communist era. The exhibits in the castle were unexpectedly high quality. As the morning waned on, we explored the outside terrace which included an American plane, an Italian tank and a view of the old city.

After a leisurely lunch, we decided to check out the Cold War Tunnel and the Skenduli House. The tunnel was built into the mountain and was part of Albania's 600,000 bunkers. On the tunnel, I tripped and got a pretty gross scrape on my right arm, which looked much worse than it felt but ended with a German tourist insisting that I pour hand disinfectant on it. After the the tunnel tour, we went to the Skenduli House, one of the few remaining homes that was in the Ottoman style. There, we learned about the marriage customs of the Ottoman traders and more about the history of the town.

For dinner, we crawled up the hill to a traditional restaurant that a very erratic man has recommended to us from his car earlier in the afternoon. Although the food wasn't very good, the restaurant had the most immaculate vibes--free cake and meatballs, a man who was intent on tying a lightbulb to the Soviet monument that our table was under, the waiter who kept using the calculator on Sunna's phone, and a random tire that was leaning against our table. After dinner, we rolled home, tool some beers and sat out on the guesthouse balcony while reminiscing before we split up the next morning--Sunna on to Tirana with the bus and Alicja and I back to Vienna via Corfu.

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Gjirokastër, Albania

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Lunxhëria, Albania

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Happy birthday, Enver Hoxha! (October 16, 1908)

Longtime leader of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, Enver Hoxha was born to a Muslim family in Gjirokastër, and worked as a secretary and teacher with communist sympathies before the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939. When the Communist Party of Albania, later the Party of Labor of Albania, was formed in 1941, Hoxha was chosen as a Muslim representative in the party's central committee, and he came to lead the party outright as First Secretary two years later. Hoxha helped coordinate the activities of Albanian partisans throughout World War II. After the war, the King of Albania was deposed and Albania was proclaimed a socialist republic, with Hoxha as its leader. Initially a strong supporter of the Soviet Union, Hoxha decried Krushchev's reforms as revisionism and aligned Albania with China in the Sino-Soviet Split. Eventually breaking with China as well over changes in Chinese foreign policy, Hoxha set out to build a policy of self-reliance for Albania. This included the construction of thousands of bunkers across the country for national defense. Other achievements of Hoxha's leaderships included advancements in education, healthcare, and infrastructure; Albania became the world's first fully-electrified country in 1970. In poor health since the early 1970s, Hoxha died in 1985.

"Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism."

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No Apple Watches back in the day. Photo:@giuliogroebert • • • • #albaniadiscovered #albania #shqiperia #architecture #archilovers #history #europe #ig_europe #traveleurope #travel #tourist #tourism #gjirokaster #gjirokastra #unesco #investinalbania #invest #visitalbania #explore #coloursofalbania2022 #colorsofalbania (at Gjirokastër Fortress) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfvkFDnvXhY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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¡Hola, buenos días, humanidad! 🌍 ¡Feliz martes! 💪🌟🚀🏆🌈📈🌱🌞🎯🌺 Hoy os regalo la postal de Gjirokastër, conocida también como Gjirokastra, una ciudad situada en el sur de Albania. Esta ciudad, declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO, es famosa por su arquitectura auténtica y bien conservada. El casco antiguo alberga casas otomanas con hermosas fachadas de madera. Uno de los lugares más impresionantes es el Castillo de Gjirokastra, que se encuentra en la cima de una colina. Este castillo, con sus imponentes murallas, ofrece vistas panorámicas del Valle del Drina y las Montañas Lunxhëeria. Además, en el interior del castillo, puedes visitar el Museo de las Armas, que alberga baterías de artillería alemanas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y otros artefactos. Otro punto de interés es el Túnel de la Guerra Fría, construido durante la época del dictador Enver Hoxha. Este túnel, originalmente diseñado como un refugio antinuclear, ahora es un espacio para recordar esa trágica época. En resumen, Gjirokastër es una ciudad llena de historia, cultura y vistas impresionantes

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