TABAK BRIDGE

Spanning the Erenik River, this old bridge (Ura e Tabakëve, Most Tabaka) owes its name to the Turkish word tabak, which means "tanner". It was built on the initiative of the city's tanners' guild in 1790 to link the (now silted) port of Shkodra, in Albania. It is 127 m long and 4 m wide, and has seven arches with carved decoration. The mausoleum of the great Albanian sheikh and Sufi poet Tahir Efendi Jakova (c. 1770-1850), who belonged to the Bayrami brotherhood, is located on the south bank of the Erenik River.