Spaç Prison

The Spaç Prison (Albanian: Burgu i Spaçit) was a political prison in Communist Albania at the village of Spaç. The former prison is listed as a second-category national monument. There were plans to turn the rapidly deteriorating site into a museum,[1] but as of February 2013, no progress had been made at the location. In 1973, a number of prisoners staged a rebellion where the non-communist flag was raised. In 1984, a similar rebellion took place at the prison of Qafë Bar.[2]

Spaç Prison
The main buildings of the Spaç Prison in 2018
LocationReps, Lezhë County,
Albania
Coordinates41°54′4″N 20°2′51″E
StatusClosed (Planned to be a Museum)
Security classMaximum
Opened1968
Closed1991
Managed byCommunist Albania

In 2015, the prison was listed by the New York–based organisation World Monument Fund as one of the 50 most endangered monuments worldwide.[3]

In 2019, Tirana-based organization Cultural Heritage without Border - Albania, with the help of a team of students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute created a publicly accessible digital reconstruction of the Spaç Prison.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Spaç prison" (in Albanian). Archived from the original on February 21, 2014.
  2. "metitrashqip.com". www1.metitrashqip.com.
  3. "2016 World Monuments Watch". Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  4. "Spaç Prison Digital Reconstruction". Cultural Heritage without Border. Retrieved 4 March 2021.


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