Tirana was declared the capital of Albania on February 9 1920 Lushnje by Congress

New plan to Tirana
View and book the new virtual Gallery that has had a continuous Development, where no doubt the fall of the communist regime and the arrival of democracy has meant that Tirana was seen as a landmark by all those who dreamed of a better life. According to institute statistics, in the early years of democracy, Tirana had 200 thousand inhabitants, after 90 years in the capital there was full of people from all parts of the country.

This migration, because of the characteristics of democracy where everyone can move anywhere was irresistible. Together with the hope of a better life movement of the population towards the center also led the first problems lease and construction unfair, because a large proportion of immigrants began to build houses without the permission of the competent authorities or in the lands of the inhabitants of Tirana .

The overcrowding during these years was so great that not only the yellow line that sets the boundaries of the capital has been enlarged several times but its population is thought to have passed the million.

The problems that brought this overcrowding had not checked their consequences in many cases irreversible. In recent years this has been blocked by overcrowding require the permission of the competent bodies for each building construction or intervention in the aqueducts. Enlargement has required the construction of new roads, new water pipes and aqueducts, new telephone lines, etc.

Tirana has been transformed into a huge construction site where the reconstruction of a road according to contemporary standards, is a new beginning of work on a new urban segment and some years it has started the new plan in the capital. The plan, which is complete in several parts, was made known by the Municipality of Tirana and aims to create a Tirana Multi-city (with many centers) in the service of the community and to legalize the areas unfit.

The complete publication of this project will be carried out in the first months of 2009, part of which were also two of the most sensitive and problematic as the artificial lake and the Center where for some time now has been blocked every type of construction or intervention. All this, just to leave the field open to the new building plan created by one of the most prestigious French studies, whose goal is a full multiline towers and centers of business, transforming it into a point where you can see all the city. According to the Mayor of Tirana, will be a center which makes the city established in these buildings, master of his city.