Travel Blog Greece

The second largest church in the village of Pyrgi, of a unique exterior decoration with the traditional scarf technique.

Dimitris Horn [1921 – 1998], son of the playwright Pantelis Horn, was a Greek performer in theatre and cinema.

Manos Katrakis, born in Kissamos Chania Crete, was a famous Greek actor of the 20th century.

Vangelis Papathanassiou, known professionally as "Vangelis", is a famous Greek composer of electronic and orchestral music.

Sappho [630 – 570 BC] is a famous archaic Greek poet from Lesbos. Sappho's poetry was lyric, and she is known for her love poems.

Hydra became a well-known island due to the 1960s film “Boy on a Dolphin” with Sofia Loren in the starring role.

Markos Vamvakaris [1905 in Syros – 1972] is a famous rebetiko music composer and musician.

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

Dimitris Papaioannou is a Greek theater director, choreographer and visual artist.

The Mykonos Biennale is held every odd year at the start of the summer on the Greek island of Mykonos, originally created by Lydia Venieri.

Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos [1935 – 2012] was a famous Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.

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

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

Nikos Kazantzakis was a famous Greek writer, considered a giant of modern Greek literature, who was 9 times nominated for the Nobel Prize.

Odysseas Elytis [1911 – 1996] was a famous poet, considered as a major international representative of romantic modernism globally.

A stone bridge built in 1814 situated between the villages Kipi and Koukouli, in Central Zagori.

The Lesbian poet Panagiotis G. Papadellis was born in the small mountainous village of Lesvos, Anemotia.

The Archaeological Museum of Corfu was built around 1965 to host the findings from the Temple of Artemis.

Margarita Miniati [1821-1887] was a famous and recognized Greek scholar and author who flourished during the 19th century.

The folklore museum in Limenaria was established in 1993 by "To Kastro (The Castle)", the Limenaria cultural association.

John Nicholas Cassavetes [1929 – 1989] was a Greek-American actor, film director and screenwriter who self-financed films.

The Archaeological Museum of Thassos is a museum located in Limenas on the island of Thassos, East Macedonia, Greece.

Vassilis Vassilikos is a famous Greek author who has published more than 100 books, best-known of which is the novel Z (1967).

Yiannis Ritsos, born in Monemvasia, was a famous Greek poet, activist and member of the Greek Resistance during World War II.