Historische site · Tiranë
Albania's Bunkers
Roughly 170,000 concrete pillboxes built under Enver Hoxha — the most visible physical legacy of the communist state.
- Type
- Museum in a nuclear bunker
- Period
- Bunker built 1972–1978
- Built
- 1972–1978, in secret
- Rooms
- 106 across five levels
In gewone taal
Bunk'Art is a huge secret bunker built into a hill for Albania's leaders in case of nuclear war. It has more than a hundred rooms. Since 2014 it has been a museum about the communist period and the Second World War.
Eenvoudige uitleg
Bunk'Art is a huge secret bunker built into a hill for Albania's leaders in case of nuclear war. It has more than a hundred rooms. Since 2014 it has been a museum about the communist period and the Second World War.
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