Highlights include a remarkably well-preserved Roman Theater (the park's centerpiece), the Venetian Acropolis Castle located at the highest point of the site and housing a small but excellent Archaeological Museum and the Lion Gate
Butrint National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site situated on a lush, marshy peninsula that preserves a dense layering of Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Venetian ruins. It is widely considered the most important archaeological site in the Balkans
According to Virgil’s Aeneid, Butrint was founded by the Trojan prince Helenus, who, after the fall of Troy, sacrificed an ox that struggled ashore and died on the beach, an omen that led him to name the city Buthrotum, meaning "Wounded Ox"