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Butrint National Park, in Albania
Albania

Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
, was created in March, 2000. It protects 29 square kilometres of historic landscape, archaeology
Archaeology

Archaeology, archeology, or arch?ology is the science that studies Homo cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, Artifact , features, Biofact s, and cultural landscape....
 and environment
Natural environment

The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, is a term that encompasses all life and non-living things occurring nature on Earth or some region thereof....
.

The Butrint
Butrint

Butrint is an Ancient Greek city and an archaeology site in Sarand? District, Albania, some 14 kilometres south of Sarand? and close to the Greece border....
 National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Albania
Albania

Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
. It is one of the most important archaeological sites in the country with an archaeological sequence that runs from the Bronze Age to the 19th century. A number of major monuments are still extant, the city walls, late-antique baptistery, Great basilica, theatre and Venetian castles.






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Butrint National Park, in Albania
Albania

Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
, was created in March, 2000. It protects 29 square kilometres of historic landscape, archaeology
Archaeology

Archaeology, archeology, or arch?ology is the science that studies Homo cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, Artifact , features, Biofact s, and cultural landscape....
 and environment
Natural environment

The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, is a term that encompasses all life and non-living things occurring nature on Earth or some region thereof....
.

The Butrint
Butrint

Butrint is an Ancient Greek city and an archaeology site in Sarand? District, Albania, some 14 kilometres south of Sarand? and close to the Greece border....
 National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Albania
Albania

Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
. It is one of the most important archaeological sites in the country with an archaeological sequence that runs from the Bronze Age to the 19th century. A number of major monuments are still extant, the city walls, late-antique baptistery, Great basilica, theatre and Venetian castles. In addition to the archaeological remains the site is robed in natural woodland with a complex ecosystem that depends on the nearby presence of the freshwater Lake Butrint
Lake Butrint

Lake Butrinti lies in the south of Albania in Saranda. It is in fact a lagoon. It overlooks the Ionian Sea and it is quite large in size. Beside it is the Butrinti site which is full of ancient history and is one of Albania's most popular tourist attractions....
 and Vivari Channel
Vivari Channel

The Vivari Channel links Lake Butrint with the Straits of Corfu, and forms a border of the peninsula of Butrint....
 which drains the Lake into the Ionian Sea
Ionian Sea

The Ionian Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy, including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula, to the west, by southwestern Albania, including Saranda and Himara, and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and Lefkas to the east....
. It is this combination of historic monuments and natural environment that makes Butrint
Butrint

Butrint is an Ancient Greek city and an archaeology site in Sarand? District, Albania, some 14 kilometres south of Sarand? and close to the Greece border....
 such a unique place, a 'landscape with monuments' as beloved of the Grand Tourists of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The Park was created by the Albanian Ministry of Culture, under the direction of Edi Rama the Albanian Minister of Culture between 1998 -1999 and UNESCO, ICCROM and ICOMOS. The underlying intention was to create a sustainable cultural heritage resource involving local communities and national institutions to serve as a model for other parks around Albania. Under the leadership of Auron Tare one of the founders of the Park, the Park has become the leading light in cultural heritage management in Albania. The Park is now a major centre for archaeological summer schools run by the Butrint Foundation in a number of collaborative programmes. There is an active programme of events in the theatre, concerts and performances, and outreach programmes for local schools and colleges. Some 55,000 tourists visited the archaeological site in 2005.

External links

  • Official website of the Butrint National Park
  • Website of the London based charity The Butrint Foundation
  • the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Albania