The ancient walls of Butrint whisper the ancient secrets of long-past lives. Butrint can be easily considered the most romantic, beautiful and largest of Albania’s ancient sites.
Butrint , which is located, just 18km south of Saranda , is worth travelling a long way to see.
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The ruins, which are located in a fantastic natural setting are part of a 29-sq-km national park. In just two hours of exploration you can get a feeling of a 2’500 years civilization.
Greeks from Corfu settled on the hill in Butrint (Buthrotum) in the 6th century BC. Although the site was inhabited long before. Within a century, because of the Greek culture’s influence, Butrint had become a fortified trading city with an acropolis.
The lower town began to develop in the 3rd century BC. Many large stone buildings had already been built by the time the Romans took over in 167 BC. Butrint’s prosperity continued throughout the Roman period. That is why the Byzantines made it an ecclesiastical centre.
The city then went into a long decline and was abandoned until 1927, when Italian archaeologists arrived. These days Lord Rothschild’s UK-based Butrint Foundation in helping to maintain the site preserved.
