As in Tirana, there´s a big, creepy Communist-era bunker complex, and one that´s probably second only to those of the capital´s. Why? Because this city is longtime dictator Enver Hoxha´s home town, so they pulled out all the stops. Extending 2,635 feet into the hill at the foot of the castle, the 59-room Cold War Tunnel was desgined to accommodate local and national government ministers and party elites in the case of a nuclear attack (a lot of the original furniture was looted during the fall of the dictatorship but others remain). 

Read more in my post Our Eye-opening Exploration of Albania.

David Paul Appell