It’s lined up to join the EU in less than three years, but what does Albania’s capital city have to offer tourists? A brief history Tirana grew from a small trading settlement into Albania’s capital by 1920 due to its central location. The city transformed from an Ottoman town into a capital with Italian-influenced architecture, but later endured a harsh communist dictatorship from 1944 to 1992. Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha led a harsh, isolat…
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