It might seem strange to start with a derelict building, but the Piramida is unique. It’s an unforgettable and culturally-significant building from 1987, completed not long before the fall of communism.
It was intended as a museum to honour the country’s despotic dictator Enver Hoxha who ruled from 1944-85, but naturally these plans were torn up after 1990.
Now it’s at the crux of a debate on how to deal with the period after the Second World War, when Albania suffered 45 years of isolation.
