Experience in Tirane, Albania by Ervis

What is it like to live in Tirane? Would you recommend it? What is the city like?

Tirana is the capital of Albania and is a crowdy city with full of architectural buildings surrounded by roads full of cars. Being the capital of Albania, students after finishing their high school, they try to reach the public universities of Tirana depending on the level of the grades that they achieve in the Statal Mature Exams of Albanian High School. Tirana is the best place for every person/student to work or study. The main reason is that to find a job in Tirana is extremely easy, as much easy as every stranger that lives in Tirana has also a job and on the other hand there are Public and Private Universities with many programs that can help students define their profession through these academic programmes.

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What is the student lifestyle like in Tirane?

On a certain explanation, students in Tirana are the base of youth trend life and are the base of building new projects for the city. A student in Tirana usually wakes up in the morning, gets prepared for the lessons and after finishing comes back to have lunch. The afternoon is the relaxing time : lay in bed, reading a book, listening to trend music or having a chat with friends. The evening is the "busy time!" Preparing the dinner, hanging out with friends in bars and clubs as Tirana is a place with full of bars and clubs, preparing any project for the university and many other random things that a student usually does.

Being a student in Tirana, you are protected and respected by every citizen that lives here because they know how much work it takes to be a good student and a better person in life.

How much does it cost to live in Tirane?

If students are interested to have a normal life and having everything they need, with 600 euros maximum per month, students in Tirana economically can live a very good life and a happy one.

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Is it difficult to find accommodation in Tirane? Is there any advice you can give?

In Tirana is not so difficult to find an accommodation. Tirana has some official magazines that are full of annoucements of accommodation and job offering. So foreign students almost, they take a map of Tirana, they also buy one of these magazines that cost like 70 lek (50 cents) and they can find an accommodation easily. This year also Tirana had a great experience of building some offices with agents that help students to find an accommodation.

What is the food like? What are your favourite dishes?

Here the food is tremendous, that's why the prices are a little bit high when you want to eat something classic in a restaurant. Here we have generally very low prices on vegetables, fruits and the basic food that you need to cook. If you want to live fancy and eat in restaurants, like everywhere in the world, it will be expensive. We have a lot of traditional food as byrek, pasterma, turli, tave kosi and many many others and on the other hand we have the fancy food like everywhere in the world. My favourite dishes are: (I am writing them in Albanian because they don't exist as words in English) Tavë dheu, Gjellë me turli, Tavë kosi.

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What places would you recommend visiting in Tirane?

Tirana has some specific places to visit mentioning : The big Orthodocs church in the centre of Tirana, The most beautiful and highest building in Tirana that receive the word : "The best architecture of Balkan" called Plaza, the big national park with an artificial lake, the Byzantine church in 21 Dhjetori zone, the mountain of Dajti with wonderful landscapes.

Is it good to eat out in Tirane? Can you tell us your favourite spots?

If you want to eat out in Tirane, you better have some money with you because the things get expensive that's why is reccommanded to eat at home by cooking and hanging out just for fun and sitting in the bars of Tirana. That's what every foreign student does here in Tirana. My favourite spots are : Juvenilja, Artigiano, Mon cherie in Block zone.

Is the nightlife good in Tirane? Where is good to go?

The nightlife is very active in Tirana which means that is the best thing that Tirana has developed these last years. There are many bars and clubs where students hang out with friends and family. Parties are everywhere, every evening in the city almost at Fridays and Saturdays. Some of the places that is good to go are : Matrix, Mumja, Rock stock, Lollipop that are fancy clubs and Elysee, Sophie bar, Mon Cherie bar are the best bars in the city.

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What advice would you give future students heading to Tirane?

My advice to the future students is that as soon as they will create a balanced life between University and studying with hanging out with friends and other stuff, the better and easier will be for them to manage their life in Tirana. Stay in good company, don't mess up and you will have a very nice and beautiful life in Tirana.