Saranda is situated in Southwestern Albania on the Ionian Sea, only a few miles from the Greek island of Corfu. It is about 284 kilometres from Tirana International Airport. If you are based in Saranda on your holiday in Albania, you can visit the ancient city of Butrint (a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most important archaeological finds in Albania and the Balkans), the ruins of the ancient town of Onchesmus, the Saranda Ethnographical Museum, the 'Blue Eye' natural spring, the ruins of Foinike in Finiq village, the small Castle of Ali Pasha in Vrine village, the church of 'Saint Solli' in Mesopotam village as well as the beautiful Ksmamil Islands.