6th week of Spanish cinema

Starting from October 6th Sheraton Hotel will host the 6th week of Spanish cinema in Albania. Everyday at 19:00 a new film will be projected at the Imperial Cinema On Monday, October 6th will be shown “Mar adentro” (Sea inside)

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Promoting Spanish arts through cinema

First week of Spanish cinematography in Fier The Spanish embassy in Tirana in collaboration with the Municipality of Fier organizes the First week of Spanish Film in Fier. This week’s movies are all focused on the life of famous Spanish

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Fourth Poeteka poetry and literature festival held

DURRES, Sep 22 – It was after May 30th that some Albanian poets, writers and intellectuals began to worry. “What is going on with the poetry and literature festival? Will there be another Poeteka Festival? Did everybody have enough of

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Another Guinness record for Albanian artist

TIRANA, Aug 23 – Albanian painter Saimir Strati, 42, has created “The Guitarist” mosaic, this time using cork and displaying the work at the Sheraton Hotel in Tirana. Strati used some 300,000 corks on a banner measuring 96 square-meters, thus

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Symposium and exposum the 80th anniversary of the Albanian monarchy

Photos, some of them never seen before, starting from the very first day of the Monarchy, will be exposed for public viewing in the National History Museum. The expos顯pened on Sep 1st, at 09:00 am, in the NHM lobby. It

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Remnants of 2600 year old shipwrecks found

Two 2,600 year old shipwrecks have been discovered between Saranda and Porto Palermo by the Albanian-American underwater expedition operating in Albanian waters since last year now. Archaeologists describe the objects brought to the surface from the wrecks as “rare finds.”

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Royal family gets back the seized weapons

TIRANA, Aug 17 – The Albanian royal family had returned to them 11 cases of automatic weapons, grenades and hunting arms which had been seized by authorities. The weapons had been brought to Albania by the son of the former

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Albanian new Guinness record with cork mosaic

TIRANA, Sep 6 – An Albanian artist has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for a third time after creating a large mosaic with bottle corks. Saimir Strati, 42, used more than 200,000 corks in creating a mosaic of

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Wine taps mosaic ready on Sep 4th

Albanian artist, Saimir Strati, is working from Aug 8th to create the biggest mosaic in the world made of wine taps and therefore to break the Guinness world record. The subject of the mosaic is called “Mediterranean”. The artwork lays

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“Honeymoon” starts shootings in Tirana

Tirana’s suburb will be the first shooting place for Serb-Albanian movie “Honeymoon”. The rest of the shooting will take place in Serbia and/or the neighbouring Italy. Genc Permeti wrote the screenplay for the movie and Goran Pakalevic, a famous Serbian

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