Travel Blog Greece

King Midas, one of the most famous Greek myths, is about a king who turned into gold everything he touched.

Aristaeus, born in Kissavos, was the culture hero and God of Greek Mythology that discovered many useful arts, including bee-keeping.

The Acropolis of Athens is the sacred rock, on and around which the values ​​of representation and accountability were built.

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.

Excavations have found that the Meteora rocks were inhabited around 50.000 years ago.

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.

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

Metsovo came under Ottoman rule soon in the 15th century and it was burnt during the 1st Balkan War.

Rebetiko Music was accepted as the 5th Element of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Greece.

Old sketes on a Meteora rock, with ladders that the monks have constructed with wood to create a communication grid.

The Venetian arsenal at Gouvia, 8 Km from the capital city, was a shipyard built and operated by the Venetians during their rule of Corfu.

Milos mining history began around 7.000 BC (during the Neolithic Age) with the construction of tools and weapons from obsidian.

The Palace of Mystras, which served as the residence of Governors and Despots, is situated above the square of Ano Chora.

The Old Town of Xanthi is widely known for its unique architecture of the 18th century and Byzantine churches.

The Hydra Museum of Historical Archive was founded in 1918. The building where it was housed was donated to the state by Gikas Koulouris.

Anavatos is a byzantine deserted naturally self-defensed tower-village on a rock of Chios island.

Homer is the legendary author of the two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the central works of Greek literature.

Ancient Thera is an antique city of the 9th century BC, 360 m high on Messavouno mountain in Santorini island.

The castle and the town of Monemvasia were founded in 583 by people who were trying to be protected from the Slavic and Avaric invasions.

The Archaeological Museum of Mykonos hosts exhibits dating from the Prehistoric to the Hellenistic period.

The Catacombs of Milos are caves into volcanic rocks, which are still today used mainly as storerooms, in the past as burial chambers.