Explore Tirana
Just arrived in the city and wondering how to start exploring it? We have a good collection of tips and articles to help you enjoy your time here.
As the capital of Albania, Tirana surely has the opportunity to offer things to do and see for every taste.
Tirana is a charming and intriguing city. It has unique monuments and history. It is a melting pot of cultures dating way beyond the Ottoman times through the Italian occupation and a long-lasting totalitarian regime. You can visit:
- Skanderbeg Monument and Square
- The Cloud of Sou Fujimoto
- New Bazaar
- Peace Bell
- Independence monument
- National Historic Museum
- Tanners’ Bridge
- Bunk’Art
- National Gallery of Arts
Getting to Tirana
Tirana is situated in the heart of Albania, so you can come here easy from all the directions. The airport is so close the city, just 25 minutes away. But you can get here by bus, by ferry, by car or by taxi. It depends on you.
Taxi Suggestions:
- Green Taxi Mob: 0800 2000 , http://green.al/
- Merr Taxi Mob: 0800 5555 , https://merrtaxi.com/
- Smart Taxi Mob: 069 702 0002 , https://smarttaxialbania.business.site/
- City Taxi Mob: 069 999 9111 , http://www.citytaxi.al
- Speed Taxi Mob: 04 222 2555
Confused about your trip to Tirana? Here is a list of useful information that you will need to make your trip to Tirana, Albania easy.
Tirana offers a wide range of hotels, from budget to luxury, to fit everyone’s lifestyle. We have only selected a few that we recommend as being the top service hotels in Tirana:
- Colosseo Hotel in Tirana https://hotelcolosseotirana.com/
- Hotel Unik https://unikhotel.al/
- Rogner Hotel Tirana https://www.hotel-europapark.com/
- Maritim Plaza Tirana https://www.plazatirana.com/
- Mak Albania Hotel https://www.makalbania.com/
- Arte Hotel https://artehotel.al/
- Xheko Imperial https://xheko-imperial.com/
- Opera Hotel https://hotel-opera-tirana.business.site/
Largely influenced by Italian, Greek and Turkish cuisine, yet Albania has a rich culinary heritage. Tirana hosts many of the best restaurants in the country, some very chic, with fine Italian cuisine, as well as many with a more traditional cuisine.
Here are some of our suggestions:
- Salt https://www.salt.al/
- Lift https://liftrestaurant.al/
- Otium Restaurant
- La Gioia
- Padam Restaurant
- Melograno
Local Cousine:
- Era
- Artigiano
- Mullixhiu
- Juvenilja
- Sofra e Ariut
- ODA
