Many civ­i­liza­tions have inhab­it­ed this small Aegean island, near Asia Minor, since the 3rd mil­len­ni­um B.C. The remain…

Only the ruins remain today. The col­umn that has fall­en and can still be seen in pieces was brought down dur­ing a thu…

The semi­cir­cu­lar arch, which unex­pect­ed­ly appears among the unre­mark­able hous­es, is the only sur­viv­ing part of the ci…

Ded­i­cat­ed to the Iso­dia of the Vir­gin Mary, it is exter­nal­ly a large-sized white three-aisled basil­i­ca on an unusu­all…

Ini­tial­ly, the Vene­tians called their fortress “Roc­ca al mare”, which is trans­lat­ed from Ital­ian as “Rock by the sea”…

The Venet­ian fortress, which took 17 years to build (1573–1590), ulti­mate­ly failed to pro­tect the city from the Turks…

One of the most famous land­marks of Fole­gan­dros. It is locat­ed on top of a cliff near Cho­ra. A zigzag road leads from…

The foun­tain con­sists of three mouths in the form of lion heads, from which water flows, above which rise four Corint…

The palace com­plex is the largest archae­o­log­i­cal site of the Bronze Age in Crete. It was undoubt­ed­ly the cer­e­mo­ni­al a…

An 11th-cen­tu­ry Byzan­tine monastery and UNESCO World Her­itage site. Dam­aged by an earth­quake in 1999, it has since be…

An Ortho­dox spir­i­tu­al cen­tre since 1054, Mount Athos has enjoyed an autonomous statute since Byzan­tine times. The ‘Ho…

The Greek light­house has become famous all over the world due to its unusu­al loca­tion: the tow­er ris­es on a small roc…

The wind­mills of Mykonos are one of the most rec­og­nized land­marks of the whole Greek island. The group of 5 wind­mills…

In its ear­ly years (think 174 AD ear­ly), this Acrop­o­lis the­ater host­ed the finest ancient Greek musi­cians. Nowa­days, …

The Cha­nia Light­house, orig­i­nal­ly built in the 16th cen­tu­ry, is locat­ed oppo­site the Firkas fortress in the old port …

The Tourli­tis Light­house looks like it’s straight out of Har­ry Pot­ter. It sits atop a nar­row stone spire pok­ing out o…

The Acrop­o­lis of Athens and its mon­u­ments are uni­ver­sal sym­bols of the clas­si­cal spir­it and civ­i­liza­tion and form the…

This tiny Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Once famous for its sea cap­tains and thriv­ing trade from Rus­sia to Eng­land,…

Vis­it the beau­ti­ful Neo­clas­si­cal main build­ing which hous­es col­lec­tions of Greek art, from ancient times through the …

An excel­lent muse­um of its type. Too often neglect­ed by vis­i­tors to Athens, even though it is in the heav­i­ly touriste…

A low but impos­ing build­ing erect­ed between 1882 and 1890 by archi­tect Ernst Ziller in the eclec­tic style of that age…

For­mer­ly the roy­al palace, lin­ing the east­ern side of the square and guard­ed by kilt­ed and pom-pommed sol­diers — the …

The pan-Hel­lenic sanc­tu­ary of Del­phi, where the ora­cle of Apol­lo spoke, was the site of the ompha­los, the ‘navel of t…