Butrint National Park (Albanian: Parku Kombëtar i Butrintit) is a national park created in November 2000 and located in southwestern Albania.It protects 85.91 square kilometres of historic landscape, archaeology and environment. The parks boundary includes the seaside municipality of Ksamil. The park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the most important archaeological sites in the country containing different artifacts and structures which date from the Bronze Age up until the 19th century. A number of major monuments are still extant including the city walls, late-antique baptistery, great basilica, theatre and Venetian castles. In addition to archaeological remains the site is robed by natural woodland with a complex ecosystem which depends on the nearby freshwater Lake Butrint and Vivari Channel which drain the lake into the Ionian Sea. It is this combination of historic monuments and natural environment that makes Butrint such a unique place, a landscape with monuments as beloved of the Grand Tourists of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 20:16:55 +0000
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