Tirana’s landmark Skanderbeg square gets facelift ahead of elections

TIRANA, June 12 – Tirana’s landmark Skanderbeg square has been given a facelift under a €13 million government-funded project that has completely transformed the most important public space linked to a number of historical events and manifestations from King Zog’s reign until WWII to the communist takeover and the early 1990s protests for democratic changes. Designed by a Belgian studio, the square is an old project dating back ten years ago when current Prime Minister Edi Rama was Mayor of Tirana. The new square named after the country’s 15th century national hero is 90,000m2 space, of which 28,000m2 in stone…