Unknown photos of King Zog on the beach of Durrës, driving, with General Xhilardi, riding in the sea, etc.…

Memorie.al/ During the period of the Monarchy, in addition to numerous office jobs where he stayed over 14 hours a day, at the insistence of his personal doctors, King Zog also found time to rest. He was a regular frequenter of the beach and he spent his summer holidays every year on the beach of Durrës, being accommodated together with his family and a part of the Royal Court at his Villa on the hills of the city, which they had given him as a gift. traders of Tirana and Durrës in the late 1920s. While the accommodation was there in Kodër-Villa, he made the beach where today is the area known as “Blloku”, which since then has been filled with luxury villas of the rulers of that time and the merchants of the wealthy where a small part are still today but which have lost their former splendor due to the years and structural change they have undergone by the new owners. King Zog’s visit to the beach of Durrës was a special event and was news for the press of the time where the newspapers wrote with big headlines: “King Zog and his family left for the baths of Durrës”. It is said that King Zog did not spend the beach period just relaxing in the sun bath, but he was quite active and together with the people who accompanied him, did physical exercise by running, horseback riding in the water, or rowing in boats with shovels, as well as barbell lifting, etc. etc. These passions and his slings are fixed in various photos by the photographers of the Royal Court, such as Marubi, Ristani, Jakova, etc., where some of them Memorie.al brings to its readers./Memorie.al