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Athens Acropolis Athens
57 Reviews It’s on all those annoying lists of ‘places you must see before you die’ but the city’s centrepiece, the Parthenon, and the Acropolis, the rocky hill on which it stands, really do live up to the hype....
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Fira Town Santorini Island
14 Reviews We arrived nearly midnight here at Fira. It was dark and there were locals leading us to the bus that takes everyone to the little town called Fira. We got on the bus and packed with young students so...
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Towns and Villages Crete Island
11 Reviews Bali is a small, picturesque village between Heraklion and Rethymno. People go there usually when they buy the whole package (flight, hotel, food etc) Bali used to be a fisherman village, but now...
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City overview Thessaloniki
14 Reviews this tip is not about a "favourite thing" nor a "fondest memory". it is only here to give you a link to this website http://www.thessaloniki360.com an excellent work that gives 360 degree images of...
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Museums Ioannina
9 Reviews You shouldn't miss the VRELLIS WAX MUSEUM! If you have heard of Madam Tysseu's museum in London then you'll get to know that its only Greek counterpart are to be found in Ioannina! But in contrast...
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Exploring Towns and Cities Prefecture of Heraklion
2 Reviews Matala is still charming, although the beach is full of tourists, even at the end of October... About one hour by car south of Irakleio, you may feel how hippies in 1960's were enjoying their lifes......
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Plaka Athens
23 Reviews Starting at the foot of the Acropolis, the old area of Plaka is a maze of narrow, cobble-stoned, medieval streets that twist through ancient sites, tourist-packed squares and lovely Byzantine...
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Oia Village Santorini Island
13 Reviews Our accommodation was in Firostafani Village only 10 minutes walk from Fira Town. It would have been easy to remain in this comfort zone and have a memorable holiday on Santorini , however we made the...
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Exploring Cities Crete Island
22 Reviews Chania (Hania) is the capital of the Prefecture of the same name and the second biggest town in Crete, with a population of 60.000 inhabitants. As for me Chania is one of the nicest towns in Crete...
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Upper (old) city (Ano Poli) Thessaloniki
5 Reviews Take a long walk at the Old Town It's one the pretiest areas of Thessaloniki. With old houses, small alleys and a beautiful view its worth it. Especially when you realise that you are totally lost but...
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Lake and island Ioannina
3 Reviews visit the ISLET ON THE LAKE. A Very picturesque place. Frequent boat departures from 'molos' (every half an hour during the summer). You can visit the house where Ali-Pasha's killing and decapitation...
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Ancient Civalisations Prefecture of Heraklion
2 Reviews Faistos, 63 km south of Irakleio, was the second biggest administrative, economical and religious city of minoan Crete. The excavations by Italian archaeologists in 1900 gave away the history of the...
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Athens Museums and Galleries Athens
30 Reviews This small museum is situated on the Acropolis, just next to the Parthenon. It contains finds from the Holy Rock. The exhibits are put chronologically. You'll see the characteristic Kouri and Kores,...
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Beachs Santorini Island
12 Reviews The photo I place in my tip is to show you on the map where the most popular beaches of Santorini are found. My fondest memory was the beauty of the island, its architecture, but to be honest being a...
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Exploring the Island Crete Island
17 Reviews Cretean spring is beautiful. After months of bad weather, relative cold and rains the plants burst with life. Crete becomes a blooming place and the fresh greens give a great shade against strong...
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Food and Drink Thessaloniki
9 Reviews Usually the Greeks dont have a breakfast at home but most of them every morning eat bougatsa (a pastry constiting of custard, cheese, or minced meat filling between layers of phyllo)accompanied with...
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Castle/Old town Ioannina
2 Reviews A Stroll Around the Frourio: The Walled Old Town & Citadel / For many of the centuries that Ioannina fell under the occupation of foreign conquerors, city walls enclosed all the most important...
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City Scenes Athens
19 Reviews Time schedule is posted here: http://www.sunshine-express.gr/ The train departs from Ermou Street, which is at the bottom of the Square. The departure point is in front of Geniki Bank, across the...
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Nea Kameni - The Volcano Santorini Island
11 Reviews The present-day funny shape of the island is created by a huge eruption of the ancient supervulcano, which dates back more than three thousand years. The 30-40 kilometers high eruption cloud was seen...
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Beaches Crete Island
10 Reviews While staying in Stalis although the beach there is not bad I prefer sissi , sissi is a very picturesque village and a lot of boat trips come here and stop for a swim and lunch. we drove the short...
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White Tower (Lefkos Pyrgos) Thessaloniki
8 Reviews There are three floors inside the White Tower, their shape is circular. You can see in a few minutes some such byzantine icons. Thessaloniki is the richest city of Greece in byzantine temples, Agios...
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Cave of Perama Ioannina
1 Review visit PERAMA CAVE (located in the homonymous village, 4 km north of the city of Ioannina) The Cave was incidentaly discovered during the Greek-Italian war of 1940 by a resident of the village who was...
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Panathenaic Stadium Athens
11 Reviews This Stadium is called "KALIMARMARON" which means "Beautiful marble stadium". It was built in the 4th century BC. It has been restored twice and its capacity is 70.000 spectators. In 1896 the first...
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Minoen Ruins Crete Island
5 Reviews The Palace of Minos at Knossos in Heraklion is unmissable. Much of it has been reconstructed but it does give you a better idea of the true scale of some of the ruins once you've seen how the ground...
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Aristotelous square Thessaloniki
6 Reviews Aristotelous square is just beautiful. It's full of cafes and shops and the best place to meet friends..it's a large square that connects the bigest street in Thessaloniki, 'Egnatia Odo' with the sea...
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Learning the mythologyGoddess of: women and marriageWho was she?: both wife and an older sister of Zeus, daughter of Rhea and Cronus. Main worship centre: mostly Samos, Mycenae, and Argos, with temples also in many other great Greek locations, including Olympia and Delos. Symbols and portraits: often pictured crowned and on a throne as one of the Great Goddesses, sometimes with a pomegranate. On occasions, also was depicted as a cow.Roman equivalent: Juno
The most common European emergency number 112 (following Directive 2002/22/EC: Universal Service Directive) and also standard on GSM mobile phones. 112 is used in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom in addition to their other emergency numbers.Here are some useful phone numbers that you might need while in Greece:Police: 100Ambulance: 166Fire: 199Forest fire: 191Coast guard emergency intervention: 108Counter- narcotics immediate intervention: 109
Greece National Tourism Organisation (GNTO) office:-Address:Tsoha 24, 11521 AthensOpening hours: 8.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. weekdays onlyOther particulars:-Tel : +30 210 8707000Fax : +30 210 7758631E-mail: info@gnto.grWebsite: http://www.gnto.gr
On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome an exhibition with the title "The masterpieces of European art" was arranged, the site of which the Palazzo del Quirinale was.All the member states of the European Union introduced themselves 1 - 1 selected artistic creation on the art exhibition. Greece was represented by a Sculpture of Korè. The kores are simply votive statues of young maidens that brought pleasure to the goddess who was evidently more delighted with these offerings than with any other. They do not depict specific persons and stand straight with the facial expression typical of Archaic art (the Archaic smile).
The old town is the best starting point for a your journey.It is full of impressive medieval buildingsYou can you drink your coffee there or have lunch or dinner. You can also buy gifts. The old town is full of gift shops.
Trikala is one of the 51 prefectures of Greece and one of the 14-th where I have been. I came there from Thermopylae (Fthiotida) and went back to Athens (Attica). My VT-page on Prefecture of Trikala. You may see my way across Trikala and my locations on the map.Trikala is a prefecture in northwestern Thessaly. The prefecture was created in 1881 and contains Kalampaka and Meteora,with monasteries above the rocky ledges. It is located NW of Athens.Trikala is bounded by the prefectures of Karditsa to the south Arta to the southwest, Ioannina to the west Grevena to the north and Larissa to the east.Kalambaka is known because of the famous Monasteries that built on the tops of the Meteora rocks, located around the north and east of the town.The Metéora is one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Kalambaka and is second only to Mount Athos.
Fokida is one of the 51 prefectures of Greece and one of the 14 where I have been. I came there on my way from Navpactos (Etoloacarnania) to Arachova (Viotia). My VT-page on Prefecture of Fokida. You may see my way across Fokida on the map.Phocis or modern Fokída is named after the Greek mythological personage Phocus. It is an ancient district of central Greece and a prefecture of modern Greece.Fokida bounded on the west by Ozolian Locris and Doris, on the north by Opuntian Locris, on the east by Boeotia, and on the south by the Gulf of Corinth. The massive ridge of Parnassus (2,459m) divides it into two distinct portions.Phocis prefecture contains 12 municipalities among which Delphi and Itea I visited.Modern Delphi is situated west of the archaeological site and hence is a popular tourist destination.
Aetolia-Acarnania also Etoloakarnania is one of the 51 prefectures of Greece and one of the 14th where I have been. I came there on my way from Rhio (Achaia) to Delphi (Fokida). My VT-page on Prefecture of Etoloakarnania. You may see my way across Etoloakarnania on the map.It is located in the western part of Greece. The prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi. The area is now connected with the Peloponnese peninsula via the spectacular Rio-Antirio Bridge and the surrounding prefectures take in Arta in Epirus a narrow length bordering Karditsa of Thessaly, Eurytania to the northeast and Phocis to the east. This is the largest prefecture in Greece.Nafpaktia is one of the most popular mountainous areas in Etoloakarnania. Navpaktos (in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese: Lepanto) situated on a bay on the north side of...
Achaia is one of the 51 prefectures of Greece and one of the 14 where I have been. I came there on my way from Olympia (Elia) to Antirio (Etoloacarnania). My VT-page on Prefecture of Achaia. You may see my way across Achaia on the map.It is an ancient province on the northern coast of the Peloponnese. It’s bordering the Gulf of Corinth into which the mountain Panachaicus (1,902 m, the northernmost mountain range in the Peloponnese) projects.Achaea is bounded on the west by the territory of Elis on the east by that of Sicyon.Dubbed Greece's Gate to the West Patras is a commercial hub while its busy port is a nodal point for trade and communication with Italy and the rest of Western Europe.In the Roman period Patras was a cosmopolitan centre of the eastern Mediterranean. According to Christian tradition it was also the place of Saint Andrew's martyrdom. Patras became a Christian centre...
Ilia is one of the 51 prefectures of Greece and one of the 14 where I have been. I came there from Mycenae (Argolida) via Arcadia and went to Navpactos (Etoloakarnania) then. My VT-page on Prefecture of Elia. You may see my way across Elia on the map.Ilia (also Elia) is a prefecture in the Western Peloponnese and in Western portion of Greece. The prefecture is part of the periphery of West Greece. It covers the area of ancient Elis, and was formerly a department. Its capital is Pyrgos. Its coast line includes 120 km of sandy beaches. Here lies the ancient ruins of Elis, Epitalium and Olympia.Official site nailias.gr.The Olympic flame of the modern-day Olympic Games is lit by reflection of sunlight in a parabolic mirror at the restored Olympia stadium and then transported by a torch to the place where the games are held. When the modern Olympics came to Athens in 2004 the men's and...
Grand Bretagne Hotel Athens Athens
17 Reviews and 640 Opinions Every visitor to Athens cannot fail to notice this huge hotel. It's right on Syntagma Square,...
Astra Apartments & Suites Santorini Island
1 Review and 404 Opinions My husband and I finished off our honeymoon at the Astra Apartments, an all-suite hotel. The website...
Marni Village Crete Island
1 Review and 220 Opinions Stayed in October 2006, and really have no complaints about the accomodation,Very friendly and...
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Q: Hi! Last holiday I had to give up on Greece but this year I ve decided to visit there. I am planning to go on mid-October , but I...
A: I have been to Athens during the winter months and it can sometimes be quite pleasant weatherwise but colder in the evenings even in October.. It is a capital city...
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