The ruin of a city founded as a Greek colony around 600 BCE, it later became a Roman polis until its decline and eventual abandonment around 400 CE. There are a few low-lying ruins here, including a couple of temples, an odeon (a smallish, ancient music venue, to the right in the bottom photo here), a nymphaeum (monument to classical nymphs), and main remaining structure, Apollonia´s municipal building, the Monument of Agonothetes (top photo), built in the 2nd century BCE. There´s also a small archaeological museum here, which despite being looted after the fall of the dictatorship still has a few interesting pieces. 

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David Paul Appell