- Title: ALBANIA: BUNKER MINATURES ARE HOTTEST SELLING SOUVENIR
- Date: 17th June 1994
- Summary: TIRANA, ALBANIA (RECENT) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV BUNKERS WITH TIRANA SKYLINE IN BACKGROUND 0.07 2. SV BUNKER USED AS BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP 0.15 3. SV VARIOUS OF BUNKERS 0.31 4. SV EXTERIOR SOUVENIR SHOP 0.37 5. SV CARVINGS OF BUNKERS ON DISPLAY 0.40 6. SV MAN LOOKING AT ALABASTER MODEL OF BUNKER 0.52 7. CU MODEL SHOWING NOTE WHICH ACCOMPANIES THEM 1.03 8. SV MODELS ON DISPLAY 1.30 9. SV AMERICAN TOURIST LOOKING AT MODEL AND SAYING THEY ARE SMALL AND LIGHT AND MAKE GOOD SOUVENIRS (ENGLISH) 1.38 10. SV BUNKER ON BEACH BEING CONVERTED INTO RESTAURANT 1.48 11. SV VARIOUS OF BUNKERS ALONG BEACH 2.05 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: TIRANA, ALBANIA
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- Country: Albania
- Reuters ID: LVA5IHNOU7AXR4B3GU9Z2PR3TEAR
- Story Text: Alabaster miniatures of bunkers built during Albania's communist era to ward off an invasion that never came, have become the hottest selling souvenir for foreign tourists.
Director of the Stephen Centre's bookshop, Chris Daka, said tourists are interested in carrying home a souvenir of the many bunkers dotted through out Albania.
He said the souvenir 0.3 kg (two thirds of a pound) bunkers were very good sellers. "We sell 50-70 a month usually to foreigners, and that's good for this area." During the 1970s Albania's communist regime built about 700,000 bunkers throughout the country to prepare for a feared invasion by the United States or the Soviet Union. Each bunker weighs 15 tonnes (tons).
Some people are now building restaurants over bunkers on the beachfront, while others live in them.
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