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Roots Earth in Shkodra: audio stories about 12 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 12 places in Shkodra, Albania, in Europe. The Shkodra stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Shkodra, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 12 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates and their local names. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: shkodra.md

The 12 places in Shkodra with audio stories

In the order the app shows them, with the local name after the English one where the catalogue carries one.

  1. Ebu Bekr Mosque (Xhamia Ebu Bekr)
  2. Orthodox Cathedral of Shkodra (Katedralja Ortodokse e Shkodrës)
  3. Shkodra Historical Museum (Muzeu Historik i Shkodrës)
  4. Marubi National Photography Museum (Muzeu Kombëtar Marubi)
  5. Gjuhadol Promenade (Pedonalja Gjuhadol)
  6. Cathedral of St Stephen (Katedralja e Shën Shtjefnit)
  7. Site of Witness and Memory (Vendi i Dëshmisë dhe Kujtesës)
  8. Shkodra Lead Mosque (Xhamia e Plumbit e Shkodrës)
  9. Rozafa Castle (Kalaja e Rozafës)
  10. Shirokë Village (Fshati Shirokë)
  11. Mes Bridge (Ura e Mesit)
  12. Drisht Castle (Kalaja e Drishtit)

Is there an audio guide for Ebu Bekr Mosque?

Yes. Ebu Bekr Mosque has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 12 Shkodra places in the app, at 42.0677416, 19.5140218. Every one of the other 11 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Shkodra

Open Roots Earth and choose Shkodra. The city has its own map of places with all 12 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 12 places in Shkodra, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 12 places in Shkodra, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Ebu Bekr Mosque

Local name
Xhamia Ebu Bekr
Coordinates
42.0677416, 19.5140218
In one line
Shkodër's largest Sunni mosque, rebuilt by the Muslim community near the site where the Fushë Çela Mosque stood before the atheist regime destroyed it in 1967. It was inaugurated on 27 October 1995 with Saudi support, after 24 years of imposed silence.

2. Orthodox Cathedral of Shkodra

Local name
Katedralja Ortodokse e Shkodrës
Coordinates
42.06868056, 19.51495556
In one line
The Orthodox Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ, the seat of the Metropolis of Shkodër and Pukë, was built in the early 2000s under the direction of Archbishop Anastas Yannoulatos after 23 years of the prohibition of religion during the communist dictatorship.

3. Shkodra Historical Museum

Local name
Muzeu Historik i Shkodrës
Coordinates
42.06931667, 19.50926667
In one line
The Historical Museum of Shkodër, housed in the home of the hero Oso Kuka, built in the early nineteenth century, preserves over 2,000 archaeological, ethnographic and artistic objects that recount 2,300 years of history of the town and the region.

4. Marubi National Photography Museum

Local name
Muzeu Kombëtar Marubi
Coordinates
42.0685809, 19.5155712
In one line
The oldest photographic archive in the Balkans, founded in 1856 by the Italian Pjetër Marubi and continued by three generations of the Marubi family, preserves nearly 500,000 negatives documenting 130 years of Albanian life, included in UNESCO's "Memory of the World" register.

5. Gjuhadol Promenade

Local name
Pedonalja Gjuhadol
Coordinates
42.067805, 19.516878
In one line
The main pedestrian street of Shkodër, officially named Kolë Idromeno, about eight hundred metres paved with cobblestones after a renovation programme launched by the Municipality at the end of the two-thousands. It connects the historic Catholic quarter of Gjuhadol with the Austro-Hungarian commercial zone and preserves Habsburg-style façades and wooden balconies.

6. Cathedral of St Stephen

Local name
Katedralja e Shën Shtjefnit
Coordinates
42.06542, 19.51992
In one line
The Catholic Cathedral of Saint Stephen, built beginning in 1858 under the direction of an Austrian engineer, was one of the largest churches in the Balkans of that time. In 1967 it was closed and converted into a Palace of Sports by the communist regime, and was returned as a church after 1990.

7. Site of Witness and Memory

Local name
Vendi i Dëshmisë dhe Kujtesës
Coordinates
42.065, 19.516944444
In one line
The former headquarters of the Shkodër Internal Affairs Branch, where the Sigurimi i Shtetit interrogated political suspects from 1946 to 1991. It opened in September 2014 as the 1st museum in Albania dedicated to the victims of communism.

8. Shkodra Lead Mosque

Local name
Xhamia e Plumbit e Shkodrës
Coordinates
42.046481, 19.499435
In one line
An Ottoman mosque raised by Mehmet Pasha Bushati between 1773 and 1774, distinctive for its twelve lead domes. On 16 November 1990 it became the first mosque publicly reopened in atheist Albania, with more than 50,000 worshippers present according to estimates from Albanian sources.

9. Rozafa Castle

Local name
Kalaja e Rozafës
Coordinates
42.0465304, 19.4939106
In one line
A castle on the rock 130 metres above Shkodër, raised by the Illyrian Labeates in the 4th century BCE and enriched by Romans, Byzantines, Venetians and Ottomans. It bears the name of Rozafa, the woman of the legend walled into the foundations so that the walls would stand.

10. Shirokë Village

Local name
Fshati Shirokë
Coordinates
42.0590016, 19.4575375
In one line
A fishing village five kilometres west of Shkodër, on the shore of the largest lake in the Balkans. Around a hundred families draw their living from the water, with a tradition that reaches back to Illyrian antiquity, and the shore is known as a Ramsar site for its international importance to migratory birds.

11. Mes Bridge

Local name
Ura e Mesit
Coordinates
42.11448, 19.574976
In one line
An Ottoman bridge of limestone with 13 arches and a length of 108 metres, built by Mehmet Pasha Bushati around 1768 over the river Kir. It was restored after 2008 with traditional technique and today serves pedestrians only.

12. Drisht Castle

Local name
Kalaja e Drishtit
Coordinates
42.1235, 19.6112
In one line
The ruins of the medieval city of Drivastum, 10 kilometres northeast of Shkodër, which for a thousand years was a religious, commercial and military centre of northern Albania. After the Ottoman conquest of 1478, the city was left to fall into ruin and was never rebuilt again.

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