Butrint, exploring an ancient city in Albania

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Butrint, exploring an ancient city in Albania

History is a lie that no one disputes. Napoleon Bonaparte

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Today I want to take you with me and explore the hidden treasure near the Mediterranean Sea, namely Butrint, the ruins of the ancient city surrounded by the largest National Park in Albania.

The city from what I saw is not so well known for tourists and I learned about it from travel vlogs.

This is also the last destination that we have proposed to visit from the summer holiday of 2022 that we spent in Albania.

We had accommodation in Vlore and another advantage was that we were there with my car and we could move anywhere we wanted, if it is to use public transport I don't know what to tell you because I didn't see too many except in big cities, I recommend you to come here by personal car, rented car or taxi.

The cheapest way is the personal car, the other options being quite expensive, depending on your budget, if you want to better understand the whole history of Butrint you can pay a guide that you can easily find in the big resorts (Vlore, Ksamil, Sarande).

Here you can get here very easily with the help of the gps that will bring you to the parking lot of the National Park, so we did and we arrived in the parking lot of the park, it is good to know that parking is free.

From the parking lot I noticed that there is a floating bridge that takes you across to the other side where I saw Venetian Triangle Castle(I didn't have time to cross to the other side to see what it was, but it looked interesting).

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We left the car safely, the parking lot is guarded, and we headed to the entrance here in order to enter the ancient city of Butrint we had to pay the entrance fee which was 1000LEK/9euro/person.

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As soon as we passed the entrance gate the place is amazing it captivated me, we sat a few moments on the edge of the lake and took a few pictures after which we continued our walk, by the way if you decide to come here book a day for Butrint it is worth to explore every piece of land because it is full of history.

Also at the entrance you are given a free map of the entire ancient city where each area is detailed plus you can find maps in several international languages.

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As I said above if you visit this place with a guide you will understand much better every corner of it, we chose to visit it without a guide and it was not difficult, it is a pleasure to walk on cobbled paths and laurel forest, do not worry there are many information boards that will help you a lot, all the existing monuments here are numbered from 1-25.

I will share with you as many pictures as I can from here because it's a pity not to see the place where history was written but I will focus especially on the places that really left me speechless, don't get me wrong that only a few points here would be interesting, no, the whole national park is spectacular, it's just that some areas I liked more, you may like other areas different from mine.

The first monument is the Temple of Asclepius, the place where people used to come with offerings to this god to heal them from different diseases, today a large part of the place is flooded and access is made on a wooden bridge.

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I found the amphitheatre that appears on the 2000leke note, hehe.

Another emblematic place here is the amphitheatre, it is not very big, it is made in the shape of a semicircle of stone blocks, at the bottom the floor is flooded, this is the reason why the floor was made of wood.

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We go further and reach the Roman Forum, The Baptisery and its mosaic pavements, at the bottom of the city we pass right by that special lake.

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We leave behind these areas and reach the amazing Great Basilica made of thick stone walls with large vaults perfectly walled, what technology they used in those times to achieve such works.

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We continue our way to the Lake Gate and the Lion Gate, I can't realize how tall these people were, at least through the Lion Gate you have to bend down to pass.

After passing the Lion's Gate we reached the Acropolis area where a beautiful castle was built, from here we had a view over the whole area and the lake.

My dear friends this was the last stop in Albania in 2022, I hope you enjoyed the walk through the history of this ancient city.

If you liked what you saw and read here please don't forget to give a LiKe, Follow, reBlog or a Comment, for all this I thank you, and until the next post I say goodbye.

P.S. The attached pictures you have just seen are taken by me with my mobile phone in Butrint, Albania, and the text is also designed by me.

Yours @triplug!



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A really beautiful place. Although I live close to Albania and every day I deal with Albanians living in Corfu, I have not visited this country yet. Maybe someday it will...

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Gosh, last year when we visited Albania I had even made an itinerary to go from Albania to Corfu but time was so short that we didn't have time to do that.
Probably this year we will visit Albania on our summer holiday and if we organize well maybe we will go to Corfu for a day.
Last year I went to Albania for the first time and I was amazed at how beautiful this country is.
And the resort of Ksamil has remained in my heart, hehe.

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I wish you happy holidays! And if you manage to come to Corfu, maybe we can meet for coffee in Liston 🙂

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Wow😍 such a wonderful place to visit.
Wish I could visit it but I am too far😅
Thanks for the virtual tour ,super nice place🥰

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I'm so glad my post was to your liking and yes, it is an amazing place and very far from you.
I have a saying, "Never say never,".
Thank you very much for stopping by.

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This is indeed a scenic view to behold, I was just imagining how those ancient building in Albania was constructed. Each places looks great and I could say it's a place one needs to visit for a tour, I'm sure you enjoyed every bit of the tour in Albania.
Thanks for sharing this with us.

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Thank you so much for the kind words written here, really, these places are worth visiting are truly amazing.

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Yeah, it's my pleasure to be here☺️

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I didn't even know about this historic place which is in Albania

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Albania has many amazing places and is a country with great tourist potential.

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The city looks so beautiful @triplug
People must have done a great job to maintain the city.
There are so many historical lessons to learn about that ancient town.

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If we think first of all about how much work has gone into creating this city, what materials have been used to last so many hundreds of years.
And that would be an interesting history lesson in how they discovered building materials or how they discovered the first calculations in construction.
The whole city is very well maintained today and will need to be maintained for our descendants to enjoy.

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You keep surprising me with those posts from Albania. Before them I would never consider going there, but the country looks beautiful. This is my kind of places. I like Roman forums and various ruins. It also looks like a large complex and funny that you found a place from the banknote 🙂

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I stumbled upon that place on the banknote by chance, searching on the internet for more details about this place I found out that inside there is an amphitheatre that appears on the 2000 leke.
By the way, it was a real adventure to find someone to change some money and give me back a 2000de leke banknote, hehe.
As for the ancient city of Butrint, I think it's amazing from all points of view, if you like such places you will definitely stay here all day.

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