Sarandë and several hypotheses.
Channel: Juan Carlos Rodarte
Date: 2018-11-07

I can give you tours of how you successfully ruin a town... - Auron Tare.

When entering the city, Auron tells us it only took twenty years for urbanization to destroy the villas of the port of Sarandë. It’s a fact.  When thinking of the mediterranean Albania, the classical architectural beauty of the place has been lost. The white stone has been transformed into multicolor buildings of no particular aesthetics nor style. It’s as if a huge wave of unplanned development hit Sarandë and washed away its past.

The following day, while having breakfast at the downtown hotel, the industrial butter packets were an emotional shock while we remembered the taste of Dyshe’s home made butter in Nivicë. The following question crossed our minds: how can the soul of a place be lost?

We came up with several hypotheses: ignorance, corruption, greed, lack of planning or simply the regular customer’s unconscious wish for having a non-regional product for breakfast….No, it’s not sustainable to import those types of products for the banal desires of its mouth. The list can continue, but if any of these hypothesis are presented, the sustainability of a destination may disappear into the common noises of a city.