Natural Crafts Tirana

This river, known as the "stream" in Albanian (Përroi i Lanës), flows through the center of Tirana, with Skanderbeg Square on the right bank and Blloku and the Grand Park on the left. Rising from Mount Dajti (1,613 m above sea level), it stretches for 19 km before joining the Tirana River 6 km northwest of the city center. The Lana is very narrow here: it was canalised in the 1960s. After the fall of communism, the banks were covered with illegal buildings, which were demolished in the 2000s.