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Socialist Realism, with its epic frescoes singing the glory of the people’s worker, survived here for over ten years and has influenced by the Soviet visual arts. But its force is becoming more and more artful for any art lovers and remains an amusing curiosity for others in 21st century. Its reproductions are most representative in the streets, such as in the Historical Museum on Skanderberg Square.

The ancient site of Butrint
15 km from Saranda, Butrint, close to the sea and an inland lake, the sun bleaches, which its remains recount the episodes Illyrian, Greek, Roman and Byzantine in a glorious series that linked to Virgil’s Trojan war. The theatre, the Temple of Asclepios, the baptistery Byzantine mosaics and the walls speak of the past with great eloquence.

The ancient site of Apollonia
12 km from the town of Fier, at Apollonia stands the temple of Artemis, supported by five Corinthian columns in front of the obelisk of Apollo, the theatre, the Odeum colonnade and shops. Its influenced by Greek, Roman the then flourishing arts. Later, in the thirteenth century, a monastery, stood on the site.

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