Pietro Marubi was an Italian photographer who fled to Shkodra in the mid-19th century for political reasons. He had supported general Giuseppe Garibaldi, who himself had to flee for America after the failed siege of Rome in 1849.
In the course of his career Marubi took some 500,000 photographs, which are archived or on display at this attraction on Muhamet Gollesha.
They document 19th-century and early-20th-century life in Shkodra in the most vivid way possible, capturing the dress and social norms of the time.
