Translated by Holta Vrioni from the original English version: Francesco Zavatti, “The Stalinist utopia of the Adriatic: Swedish tourists in com-munist Albania”, in Tourism and Travel During theCold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences Across the Iron Curtain, edited by Sune Bechmann Pedersen & Christian Noack, pp. 139-156. London: Routledge, 2019.