Archaeological Park of Antigonea

Antigonea was an ancient Greek city in Chaonia, Epirus, founded in the 3rd century BC by Pyrrhus of Epirus and named after his wife Antigone, daughter of Berenice I. The city was the chief inland settlement of the Chaonians and featured walls encircling the hill and a centre laid out on a Hippodamian grid plan. After siding with Macedon against Rome, it was sacked and burned by the Romans in 167 BC and never rebuilt. Now a National Archaeological Park near Saraqinisht in Gjirokaster County, Albania, the site hosts an annual festival of ancient rites.