The Music’s Day

The celebration of opening season in Saranda, usually comes in the beginning of May. This event has become a tradition already and now for several days Saranda celebrates with thousands of visitors who can enjoy a multi-event, composed by concerts, fairs, celebrations, traditional exhibitions and above all, several dishes of mussels, as the Queen of the event. The mussel comes from Butriniti Lake and it is called also the Queen of the Lake.

Butrinti Summers festival

The Butrinti International Festival of the Theatre shows up as a symbol of cultures’ confrontations and freedom of artistic creations. It is an open arena of the great masters of dramaturgy, who are brought to live through bearers of a contemporary reality. Taking into consideration primarily the antique, medieval and classical repertoire, the festival takes the shape of a return back to the origins, toward the old-age temples: the theatre.

The festival is not simply an international festival of antique or classical theatre. It is a contemporary exploration of the theatrical possibilities of this ancient site. It promises discoveries about the origins of theatre, about the power of myth and poses questions about the meaning of theatre in our contemporary world. There is an extraordinary mixture of international theatre practitioners, figures from the Albanian cultural elite and local people, which perhaps are seeing theatre for the first time. All this elements make this festival stimulating and productive.

Tangerines Festival

What is better than a big and joyful harvesting festival, which promotes excellent local products? Do not miss celebrations of the harvest at the annual Manderine Festival. The festival is a celebration to promote Albanian citrus production, coinciding with the citrus harvest and the culmination of a year of effort by citrus growers in southern Albania. Currently Xarre has over 85 thousand trees and citruses in production, 75 thousands of which are mandarins. The total production of mandarins has grown from 2.480 metric tons in 2009, with 40.6 kg production per tree, to 8.100 metric tons in 2013, with average production 85 kg per tree.