National Museum

Is the biggest museum in the country and has a special pavilion about communism crimes and killings of innocent people. Photos, documents, and objects belonging to that dark period during 1944-1990 are all displayed here. Visitors can see the list of people executed as political prisoners, most of them engineers, catholic priests, artists and intellectuals. In 1967 Albania has declared as the only atheist country in the world and all the campaign of terror was directed to religious sites and people. Almost 740 mosques, 607 Churches and monasteries, 157 Catholic churches, and 530 Bektashi Tekes were closed down, transformed in something else or demolished. The pavilion features testimonies from lives of people imprisoned and persecuted from the regime and give strong emotions.

Pyramid

Don’t pass the road without having a look at Pyramid. Well it was built by the daughter of former Dictator Enver Hoxha, as a mausoleum for him after the death. But now it is just a tourist attraction, for its architecture. It is considered a place that revokes the Albanian bitter past.

Postbllok Monument (The checkpoint)

Postbllok (Checkpoint), or the Memorial to Communist Isolation, commemorates the country’s political prisoners who suffered under the Hoxha regime. It is situated in the main boulevard in front of government building. Co-created by the former dissident Fatos Lubonja and the artist Ardian Isufi, the monument is made up of three main elements including one of the small concrete defensive bunkers that continue to litter the country, several concrete supports from the mine at the notorious Spaç labour camp where thousands of political prisoners suffered between 1968 and 1990 and a brightly painted section of the Berlin Wall from Postdamer Platz that once split Germany in two.