Gjirokastra, Albania

Cold War Tunnel

Cold War Tunnel, Gjirokastra

Enver Hoxha's regime built this underground shelter in the nineteen seventies, with fifty-nine rooms and around eight hundred metres of corridors, to accommodate three hundred people in the event of a nuclear attack. Opened as a museum in two thousand and fourteen, it bears witness to the paranoia of a regime that awaited an apocalypse that never came.

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Location

Coordinates: 40.07469, 20.1398934

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