Must-SeeGjirokastër
About 23 miles away
A stone-roofed Ottoman town below a large castle, a UNESCO site.
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Butrint
Greek, Roman and Venetian ruins in a forest by a lagoon, Albania's great archaeological site.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 3 hours
- Address
- Butrint National Park, SarandëDirections
- Getting There
- About 30 minutes by bus or car south of Sarandë, past Ksamil.
Why Go
Founded by Greek colonists and later a Roman town, Butrint was lived in for some 2,500 years before it was abandoned. Paths through the woods lead past a theater, a baptistery with a mosaic floor, a great basilica, the Lion Gate and a Venetian tower, to a castle above the Vivari Channel. It is a World Heritage Site.
Tips
- The baptistery's mosaic floor is usually kept under sand to protect it.
Nearby in Albanian Riviera
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