ALBANIA or CALIFORNIA? This is Durrës 🇦🇱 

You are the poorest country in Europe, good luck with protecting poverty

You are so right

@@alerts_royes we are poor but we are getting better by the day !! Selling out to globalists , it’s worse than being poor! Shows no character!! Albania, has water ( drinkable) , beaches, mountains, snowy places , hot places , amazing land to grow food ! We like to only import export with eu and freedom of movement, that all we need from eu !!

I honestly had the same thought recently. The moment Albania joins the EU, our heritage and land will be taken from us. It will be difficult but stay independent!

Oh damn. Didn't see anything of that.

Thank you. It was in September.

Thanks for sharing this!

Thanks for the extra info! =)

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This where the city where i live😂

Awesome 😁

I am planing to visit Albania and I will stop in Durres for a week. What is the best restaurant in Durres?

Interesting information. Thank you!

Very true. The amphitheatre had been buried for centuries after the two major earthquakes that hit Durres, and remained unearthed until 1966 !!! They freed over OR close to two thirds, which is quite impressive, but restoring it completely would be a challenge as they would have to tear down the main street, and reconfigure the downtown. That would be like demolishing a piece of history to make room for an older one's time travel. I totally agree with Maarten about the houses surrounding the amphitheater being an eyesore, but to the credit of their owners they were already there by the time the amphitheater resurfaced. Until 1990, when no one could build without State's permission - communism, be as it may, did know one thing or two about preservation - those buildings looked nothing like they look today. They used to be smaller sized, perfectly blending with the surroundings, therefore low key enough to let the eye rest over the amphitheater. I blame the post 1990's governments, who out of negligence and obtuse greediness, allowed construction along the amphitheater's perimeter. I feel very bad every time they show footage or pics of the amphitheater looking small and ill at ease tucked in between bellowing constructions. The only way to realize or - be reminded of - its greatness is through drone views, that show a strangely circular, fuller, and robust jewel of the antiquity living up to its name, as well as to our more recent collective memory. The houses on the hill will be taken care of, in one way or another, it is the highrises scattered along the waterside in all directions, where there used to be none, that take away from the attractiveness of the view.

Thank you. I'm using a gopro.

I came here looking for this comment. Now I can stop scrolling. Thank you!

Adriatikun mesdheu e mer kshu qe ai sakt esht

Lali, Adriatiku, Joni, Egjeu, Tirreni, Mar Ligure are all names for various sections of the Mediterranean. To be so "quick to judgement" because our friend, like most visitors from non-Mediterranean countries, uses the generic name instead of the brand 😁😁😁is like "Hey, this is not Albania. This is Tirana".

Adriatic is in the Mediterranean.

This was September.

Thank you 😊

good summer weather

Thank you!

So interesting 😁 Thank you so much!

lol stop throwing this bullshit here, almost nobody ever gets compensated in Albania, and even those who do, they often get half of the real value or less. The demolition mafia in full coordination with the mafia government never compensates anybody. It's all about stealing and confiscating their properties in the name of "modern development".

I've heard they will restore the site better.

@@Maartentravels Political propaganda, it has been said for years. You saw it yourself how they keep it... I am born in Tirana, where all those new constructions without any criteria is dirty money in full laundry process between government and mafia. I hope things change, I have not lived there in a very very long time.

Up to mid September it’s summer