Abandoned Places in Fier

Four monolithic concrete bunkers for a 122 mm artillery battery, connected by tunnels — with a wealth of inscriptions, slogans, and military drawings preserved on the walls.

A vast post-apocalyptic ruin of a former fertiliser plant — utterly stripped bare yet strikingly impressive, with goats grazing freely among fig trees, apple trees, and blackberry bushes.

A vast abandoned bunker carved into the rock beneath the central hill of Fier — a branching two-level tunnel system with blast doors, ventilation shafts, and remarkably intact equipment. One of the most preserved command bunkers in Albania.

A concrete circus built under communism to entertain the proletariat — yet never once opened its doors. Fig trees now grow inside the ring, and an owl keeps watch from the rafters.

A huge building meant to become a university — construction began in 2012 but was ruled illegal and left unfinished. A café, a furniture store and occasional events on the ground floor; the upper floors stand empty, though the lifts still work.

A vast abandoned military storage base in the Fier region — long derelict hangars, underground fuel reservoirs lined with metal insulation, and tunnels burrowing 100 metres into the rock.

A standard artillery position consisting of several protected gun emplacements assembled from prefabricated elements — training inscriptions and reference charts survive on the interior walls.

A typical artillery position comprising several protected gun emplacements built from prefabricated elements, surrounded by olive groves — in remarkably good condition.

A vast underground structure of unknown purpose — one of three similar complexes encountered across Albania. Concrete equipment pads hint at its former industrial life.

A standard Albanian concrete water tower that ended up in the sea over a few decades — striking from both the shore and the water, with a café ruin for company.

Four monolithic concrete gun emplacements connected by an underground tunnel — and decorated inside with an unexpected gallery of military wall paintings.

A small-village bottling plant that ceased operations in the mid-2010s, leaving behind nearly all of its equipment — from filtration systems to a fully stocked warehouse of bottle preforms and flavour concentrates.

A small military command bunker carved into the rock with three entrances, brick partition remnants, and signs of recent habitation by a homeless person insulated with fibreglass.

An abandoned alcohol production plant closed in 2014 — still holding bottling lines, semi-underground tanks, a laboratory, and several hundred bottles of finished wine.

Monolithic concrete gun emplacements set on a ridge of hills, facing the sea — an unusual non-standard design forming a second line of defence.

A small industrial compound once used to produce, store and distribute animal feed across the agricultural cooperatives of the surrounding district — complete with silos, truck scales, and a colony of feral chickens.

A standard artillery position of four protected gun emplacements — notable for its surviving concrete doors of human scale and military instructions still legible on every shelter wall.

A former HQ-2 missile launch site — the Chinese equivalent of the S-75 — featuring six concrete launch tables, equipment shelters, and a network of tunnels connecting positions to nearby hillside garage bunkers.

A former military base reduced to bare walls and underground storage tunnels — silent, stripped, and completely abandoned.

A network of tunnel-connected firing positions for machine guns and light artillery crowns a peaceful green hilltop — with Enver Hoxha's own words still stencilled on the walls inside.

A standard artillery firing position facing the sea, with a preserved line of mushroom bunkers — small concrete pillboxes — standing in front of the main gun emplacements.

A quirky abandoned roadside nightclub with a veranda, upstairs living quarters, a full bar, red furniture, VIP curtains, three dancing poles — and a backroom stash of outrageous footwear.

A military motor depot tucked into a fold between two hills — fifteen to twenty tunnel garages cut into the slope, a command bunker, and three fuel drums still standing in the farthest tunnel.

A Cold War air defense position tucked inside one of Albania's most popular archaeological parks — four gun emplacements, radar garages, and a six-way tunnel junction hidden among ancient ruins.