Skanderbeg Square, Central square in Tirana, Albania

Skanderbeg Square is Tirana's main plaza, a 40,000-square-metre open space paved in pale grey stone tiles. At its centre stands an 11-metre bronze equestrian statue of Skanderbeg by Odhise Paskali, unveiled in 1968 on a stepped stone plinth. Around the square are the Palace of Culture with its 18-column portico, the National Historical Museum, the Et'hem Bey Mosque and the Clock Tower.

Austro-Hungarian authorities laid out a public square here in 1917; the officers' casino they built that year still stands at its southwest edge as a puppet theatre. The square was completed in the late 1930s with a circular fountain at its centre, destroyed in 1944. From the 1960s the bazaar quarter and Orthodox cathedral were cleared for monumental buildings, and the 2017 renovation, designed by 51N4E and Anri Sala, made it part of the Balkans' largest pedestrian zone.

The square takes its name from Skanderbeg, the national hero honoured by an 11-metre bronze equestrian statue made by Odhise Paskali and unveiled in 1968 for the 500th anniversary of his death. Nearby, the Palace of Culture, built 1960–1966 with a portico of 18 columns, hosts opera and concerts; in 1999 DJ Bobo drew 150,000 spectators here.

The square is a car-free pedestrian zone since the 2017 renovation, with the ring road around it carrying through traffic. The paving of stone from across Albania forms a level surface, and the surrounding institutions open onto it. Underground parking was added beneath the plaza.

The 1968 bronze equestrian statue of Skanderbeg, designed by Odhise Paskali, stands eleven metres high and replaced a monument to Joseph Stalin on the same spot. The Stalin statue was moved elsewhere when the Skanderbeg monument was unveiled for the 500th anniversary of his death.