Different Style Houses

To say that the Ethnographic Museum in Gjirokastër is located in this house would be slightly misleading.  I think a more accurate description is that the house is the museum.  The house happens to have been the family home of Enver Hoxha, the Communist Party head in Albania who pretty much ran things from right after WWII

until his death in 1985.  The house has been restored and period furniture located.  The ground floor was mostly storage and work rooms, with high windows for security.  The second and higher floors were for the family, all however many generations there were.  The second picture is of the men's meeting room where men of the family and male friends would get together and lounge about and smoke and drink coffee and raki and swap tales and generally have a high old time.  It would also host important meetings and clan gatherings, depending on the house and the rank of the owner.  A similar house north of Tirana in Kruja has a balcony with wooden carved screens.  This is where women could sit and listen but not be seen or participate.  The kitchen photo is mainly of the oven.  

The last two pictures are more bunkers, the first ones in a field close to Libohova guarding against attackers from the south, and the last ones perched on the mountainside above the Ionian Sea, waiting for some crazy soul to land on the virtually nonexistent beach  below and slowly climb up to the bunker.