Tanners’ Bridge

Tanners’ Bridge

Tanners’ Bridge is a monument that evidences the development of architecture, commerce, craftsmanship, and the importance that inhabitants gave to the communication between the various areas within the city in the eighteenth century. The road connected Tirana with the eastern highlands and was mainly used by farming caravans to bring produce and livestock into the city.

The bridge was in use across the Lanë stream to the other until the 1930s, but later it was diverted from its previous course where it fell into disrepair till the 1990s when the bridge was fully restored. It has the shape of a 2.5m width and an 8m length stone arch. Its height is 3.5m. It has been part of the Saint George Road but now is located at the end of George W. Bush Road, Boulevard “Zhan D’Ark.”