Postcard Places
Let’s lose our worries about the virus in Butrint, Albania
At a time like this, we should be thankful and grateful for our modern technology as while we’re sitting at home hiding from the virus we can still visit wonderful places around the world. I’ve always taken special pleasure in admiring the photos placed on Snapshots, but in the present circumstances I appreciate it even more. Do you feel the same?
Butrint is the place I’d like to take you to so that you could forget for a second about the reason for your recurring worries in the last few weeks.
Butrint is one of the flagship places of great archeological significance in Albania. It’s an ancient town situated in a national park at a salt lake and the Vivari Channel. A solid defensive wall hides quite an impressive collection of pretty well preserved ruins. That the remnants of ancient buildings are well preserved is a fact worth emphasizing actually, as I’ve learned by experience. Last summer our family visited Greece, which abounds in ancient tourist sights e.g. Sparta, where quite often all you can relish is just piles of stones with labels and pictures describing where and how they were used back then. In Butrint, however, you can actually SEE what a given sight used to be as usually the main parts of a structure are still there. Thus, you can easily imagine the rest, as opposed to a pile of stones which puts your imagination to the test in extreme conditions.
What I really regard as a big advantage is that sightseeing in Butrint takes place in a nicely shaded area, so it’s particularly pleasant to wander around the town not only for parents, but for children too.
Let’s take a walk around Butrint then!
All photos taken by Author.
Thank you for taking this walk with me! Take care!
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