Ancient Empires — Archaeology Trail

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7 days tracing 3,000 years of empire — Apollonia, Byllis, Butrint, Antigonea and the two greatest Ottoman cities in the Balkans.

Hoogtepunten

• ✓Apollonia — 6th-century BC Greek colony with a perfectly preserved Bouleuterion
• ✓Byllis — a dramatic Illyrian hilltop city almost entirely unexcavated and unknown to tourists
• ✓Berat Castle — 2,000 years of continuous habitation, still inhabited today
• ✓Onufri Museum — greatest collection of Byzantine icons outside Mount Athos
• ✓Antigonea — a Hellenistic city in the hills above the Drino Valley
• ✓Butrint UNESCO — 5 civilisations on one peninsula: the most layered site in Europe
• ✓Gjirokastër — the finest Ottoman city in the Balkans, lived in and thriving
• ✓Private sessions with Albanian archaeologists at two sites