Tirana

Tirana's National Arena is the venue for the final of the UEFA European Conference League, the first time that the country has hosted such a high profile ...

A tower in the one of the corners (which hosts Albania’s first Marriott hotel) is the highest in the country, while Bosio’s original neoclassical entrance has been preserved in the new design. The country’s national team had by then for a couple of years been forced to play at a much smaller but more modern ground in Elbasan. Roma will play Feyenoord at another of Tirana’s recently completed urban renewal projects: the country’s national stadium, opened in 2019 with a match between the Albanian and French national teams. Finally, the presence of vegetation in the square was substantially increased. The transformation of these prefabricated apartment blocks became an almost overnight sensation and was soon attracting tourists to Tirana, a city until then generally swerved by international travellers. It’s a sign of the Albania’s, and Tirana’s, progress.