Tirana’s Rainbow

Devoid of natural geographical beauty or of more than a handful ancient architectural gems, Albania’s capital city of Tirana also fell victim to the dreadful boxy, drab concrete architectural style prevalent throughout eastern Europe’s communist countries. So the natural foundation for a beautiful city are not entirely there in abundance.

But Tirana did something amazing. It painted.

Everywhere you turn, the dull and lifeless blocky architecture has been transformed into lively, dynamic and colorful visual eye candy with strokes of the paint brush. Walking down the cities main streets, the dazzling display of creative coloring left me beaming and inspired, proving to the world once again that even for a city, it’s not what you have, but what you do with it that counts.

Images from the colorful buildings of Tirana: