A home for art.
After the 1990s, the villa became an artistic shelter connected with the Durrës Art Gallery - another chapter built around culture and gathering.
DISTILLERYGASTROPUB
Since 1999 · Durrës · History & place
A house shaped by the sea.
Before it became Distillery, this address had already lived several lives.
The building
Welcome to our historic hall in Durrës.
Near the home of Mantho Jorgji once stood the Jallisë Gate - the entrance through which the city met the sea.
The nearby two-storey villa carried that maritime identity into its architecture. Shells set into its tall façade shimmered in the sunlight, adding a distinctive detail to the building’s neoclassical character.
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The Jallisë Gate
An entrance from the sea.
Durrës has always looked outward to the Adriatic. The old gate and the shell-detailed façade preserve a small part of that relationship between the city, its architecture and the water.
A new chapter after dark.
Today the historic setting lives again as Distillery Gastropub: a meeting place for food, cocktails, music and the rhythm of Bulevardi Epidamn.
Past meets present
The building still welcomes the city.
Its purpose has changed, but the idea remains familiar: a place where Durrës comes together.