The well-known newspaper Guardian chooses once a week the best gallery with photos of a destination. This time, it was Albania. Jure Matičič the winning photographer of the week captures the
Albanian seaside town of Durrës. Matičič
is a photographer from Ljubljana, Slovenia, and recently visited Durrës,
Albania’s second largest city.
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| Photo credits: Jure Matičič |
Along the seafront, kids were playing on a statue commemorating Albanian resistance to the invasion by Mussolini’s Italian forces on 7 April 1939.
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| Photo credits: Jure Matičič |
About 35km west of Tirana, Durrës is a port and among the
largest cities on the Adriatic. It’s also a popular seaside resort. For
decades, under the communist regime of Enver Hoxha, it was just about the only
holiday destination available to Albanians.
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| Photo credits: Jure Matičič |
The city was, briefly, renamed Durrës-Enver Hoxha during the
late 80s. Then (after the fall of communism) it became the location for mass
migrations to Italy. In the past couple of decades, Durrës has had a facelift.
Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2017/sep/27/life-at-the-seaside-durres-albania-in-pictures#img-3
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