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Water in Gjirokastër is much better than it was — a 2023 German–Swiss rebuild replaced the old rusted mains, and the regulator now records about 22 hours of supply a day — but short cuts still happen, especially up the hill. This board is for the honest question when your tap runs dry: is it just my building, or the whole neighbourhood? Signed-in residents tap their quarter to report a cut; reports fade on their own after a few hours, and it takes several independent neighbours before an area reads as sector-wide. The official utility line stays the authoritative channel for planned works.
Owning a house in Gjirokastër's protected old town means ordinary repairs — a new roof, a repainted facade, a replaced window — are permit questions decided by the national heritage bodies, not the builder or the municipality. The heritage director has warned that collapsing stone roofs are a danger to the families living under them. This tool lets you pick the job you have in mind and see whether it generally needs full restoration approval (IMK → KKR), a lighter heritage sign-off, or none — with where to confirm for your own building and where owner support exists. It orients you; it does not decide your case.
Gjirokastër is a UNESCO-listed Ottoman stone town on a steep slope above the Drino valley in southern Albania — the "city of stone" of Ismail Kadare's novels, with its grey stone-slab-roofed tower houses stepping down below the castle. It joins with four tools built from the town's own research: a heritage-permit helper for owners of the protected old-town houses, a live resident water board, a getting-here guide for a road-only town, and a rain outlook for its wet autumns. The pages are in English for now — the platform does not yet support Albanian.
We've finished a first research pass on Gjirokastër, the stone town above the Drino valley: ten documents on its shrinking and aging population, the heritage-tourism economy, civic services, culture, geography and history, and what residents raise locally. The defining tension is the conservation regime — UNESCO-protected houses residents cannot legally or affordably repair, with the regional heritage director warning that collapsing roofs threaten the families living under them. Also recurring: water-supply hours short of the promised round-the-clock service, autumn storms closing the Kakavijë and Kardhiq–Delvinë roads, and isolated villages petitioning for a basic road. Timely local information is Albanian-only today.