Tirana - painted apartment block

Tirana - painted apartment block, originally uploaded by CharlesFred.

Edi Rama, the mayor of Tirana, has made an amazing difference to the city - by subsidizing paint and ancouraging people/housing corporations to paint their apartment blocks. He is an amazing man, who was interviewed by Michael Palin in his New Europe series on BBC. There is a very interesting article about him on this link: www.tirana.gov.al/?cid=2,58,413