Greece A to Z: I
6 entries from the Greece A to Z Travel Dictionary, starting with I. Search or filter them here, or open another letter.
Ikaria
RegionA rugged Aegean island identified as one of the world's five 'Blue Zones', where residents are noted for unusually long, active lives, credited partly to local diet and an unhurried pace of life.
#Ioannina
RegionA lakeside city in Epirus with an Ottoman era fortress quarter, silversmiths and a small inhabited island reached by ferry.
#Ionian Islands
RegionThe greener, wetter western island group, Corfu, Paxos, Lefkada, Kefalonia and Zakynthos, with a strong Venetian legacy.
#Ios
RegionA Cycladic island with a famously lively hilltop chora and, at the other end of the day, some of the best beaches in the group.
#Island hopping
PracticalTravelling between islands by scheduled ferry rather than flying. It works best inside one group, because routes radiate out from the mainland ports along regional corridors rather than running across them.
#Ithaca
RegionThe Ionian island identified with Odysseus’s homeland, green, quiet and reached mainly via Kefalonia.
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