Monument sights in Tirana
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Pyramid
The Pyramid - also known as the former Enver Hoxha Museum (1988) - was designed by Hoxha's daughter and son-in-law. In a hilarious twist of fate the building with its sloping white-marble and glass walls and which once housed a grandiose statue of the ruler, is now home to a disco called the Mummy.
In front of the Pyramid the Bell of Peace is a touching little memorial to the country's difficult postcommunist years, forged from bullet cases collected by Albanian schoolchildren during the anarchy of 1997.
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Statue of the Unknown Partisan
The socialist-realist Statue of the Unknown Partisan seems to be aiming his weapons at the Parliament building (1924) down the road. At the foot of the statue day-labourers wait for work, some with their own jackhammers - a fitting image of the precarious position of the postcommunist Albanian worker.
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