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The ascetic community in Meteora started around the beginning of the 13th century.

Pavlos Kountouriotis [1855 – 1935] was a Greek admiral during the Balkan Wars and the 1st and 3rd President of the 2nd Hellenic Republic.

The Ionian Academy was the first academic institution of modern Greece, established by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, in 1824.

Manto Mavrogenous, born in 1796 in Mykonos and died in 1848, is a Greek famous heroine of the Greek War of Independence.

Michael Tositsas [born in Metsovo in 1787] was a Greek businessman and benefactor, considered to be the father of Hellenism in Egypt.

Moni Varlaam is a mens' monastery on the top of a steep rock, one of the six still operating in the area of Meteora.

Rebetiko music, born in the 1920s in the underground clubs of Greece, blends the sounds of the East and West to create a soulful raw style.

Explore the legacy of the Venetian Arsenal in Corfu, a sprawling complex of buildings and docks that was once the heart of naval power.