Bulevardi Dëshmorët e Kombit
The Bulevardi Dëshmorët e Kombit ( Albanian for Boulevard of the Martyrs of the Nation ) is the main boulevard of the Albanian capital Tirana . It leads from the central Skanderbeg Square about one kilometer south to the Mother Teresa Square at the university .
The approximately six-lane boulevard is lined with trees and many important public buildings, especially those of the government. It begins in the middle of the ministry complex that forms the southern end of Skanderbeg Square. About halfway through its course, the boulevard crosses the Lana . The equestrian image of Skanderbeg on Skanderbeg-Platz and the main building of the university on Mutter-Teresa-Platz , towards which the boulevard leads, serve as visual endpoints .
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The street was laid out as part of a redesign of the Albanian capital in the 1930s and 1940s. For the then rapidly growing city, which was concentrated north of the Lana, an expansion across the river to the south was planned. A plan by the Italian Armando Brasini that was never carried out was the cornerstone for further urban development with a boulevard lined with government buildings as a north-south axis.
“The Brasini sub-plan provided for two administrative centers connected by a boulevard: the Ministries' Square (Skanderbeg) and the Presidential Chancellery (Mother Teresa / Nënë Tereza) . Today, after almost a hundred years, this boulevard is still the largest and most beautiful in Albania. "
The Austrian architect Wolfgang Köhler refined the town planning further. From 1930, his plan from 1928, which provided for a north-south axis at least 35 meters wide, was gradually implemented, but this was only built north of Skanderbeg Square. After the Italians invaded Albania in 1939, construction work on the boulevard continued. The magnificent boulevard and many government buildings as well as the Hotel Dajti were built. The street and above all the adjoining Mother Teresa Square to the south, surrounded by colonnades and magnificent buildings - called Viale del Impero and Piazza del Littorio by the Italian fascists - formed a unit. The executive architect Gherardo Bosio is said to have worked out the plan so that the two squares, the boulevard and the stadium together form the shape of a fascist literary ax , with the street representing the handle of the ax. The Lana Bridge was built as early as 1934/35.
During the communist era, various other important buildings were built along the street: the official residence of the President , the National Art Gallery , the Enver Hoxha Museum and the Congress Palace . In the 1990s, another hotel was built by an Austrian chain, and after the turn of the millennium, another striking new building followed with the Twin Towers office and commercial building consisting of two fifteen-story towers . Until 1991 statues of Lenin and Stalin stood opposite each other at the level of the art gallery . The latter was the last public Stalin monument in Europe. In 2013, a little further south, the Post-bllok memorial was opened, which commemorates the victims of communism and consists of supports from a mine of a labor camp, a bunker and a piece of the Berlin Wall .
The communist government regularly held parades on the magnificent boulevard. Every evening it was populated by many walkers.
Today the boulevard is an important traffic axis. Occasionally, parties and political events take place on the boulevard and the squares at the end. Even during important Islamic holidays - such as the Feast of Sacrifice and the Feast of the Breaking of the Fast - the street is often used by thousands of believers as a place to pray.
At times, the northern continuation of the axis between Skanderbeg Square and the old train station was also called Bulevard Dëshmorët e Kombit . This stretch of road was laid out earlier. He was soon after Vittorio Emanuele III. named, later renamed Stalin Boulevard . After the collapse of the communist regime, it was given its original name again, Bulevardi Zogu i parë .
The existing north-south axis is currently being expanded further north beyond the former train station. At the same time two new tram lines are to be run through the city center; one also leads along the boulevard and ends at Mother Teresa Square .
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Southern section with Kuvendi , Twin Towers and the Council of Ministers (far right)
Miners' protest before the Council of Ministers (2007)
South end with university in 1991
Part of the Post-Bllok monument
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Individual evidence
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