# Lion Gate (Butrint)

Saranda, Albania

This narrow stone gate in Butrint's city walls was built in the Hellenistic period and rebuilt in the Middle Ages. Above it is a carving of a lion tearing apart a bull, taken from a much earlier monument.

## Roots Earth

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Coordinates: 39.747709, 20.021046

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