Sítio histórico · Tiranë
The Pyramid of Tirana
Built as Enver Hoxha's mausoleum-museum, later a nightclub and NATO base, reopened in 2023 as a youth technology centre.
- Type
- Museum of surveillance
- Period
- Building 1931; museum since 2017
- Original use
- Built 1931 as a maternity clinic
- Later
- Sigurimi surveillance and interception centre
Em linguagem simples
The House of Leaves was where the secret police listened in on people's phone calls and planted microphones. It is now a museum showing the equipment they used and the files they kept.
Explicação simplificada
The House of Leaves was where the secret police listened in on people's phone calls and planted microphones. It is now a museum showing the equipment they used and the files they kept.
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The leader who took Albania out of the Soviet bloc, then out of the Chinese one, and banned religion outright.
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The Sigurimi
The Directorate of State Security: the secret police of communist Albania, and the institution the House of Leaves museum was…
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- Wikimedia Commons.
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