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Iconic sights and hidden corners across the country.
Athens
The historic capital of the Acropolis, museums and a buzzing food scene.
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Santorini
The famous caldera, whitewashed villages and sunsets over the sea, with the clifftop village of Oia the classic spot to watch the sun go down.
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Mykonos
Beaches, nightlife and Cycladic charm, anchored by the whitewashed Little Venice waterfront and the row of iconic windmills above it.
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Crete
The largest island, with mountains, gorges, beaches and proud food, from the Samaria Gorge hike to the pink sand of Elafonissi in the southwest.
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Corfu
Lush, Venetian flavoured and green, the jewel of the Ionian.
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Meteora
Monasteries perched on dramatic rock pillars, six of an original twenty four still active and open to visitors.
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Delphi
The ancient sanctuary of Apollo on Mount Parnassus.
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The Peloponnese
Nafplio, Mycenae, Olympia and Epidaurus, rich in history, with Nafplio's hilltop Palamidi Castle and the ancient theatre at Epidaurus among the highlights.
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Thessaloniki
Greece's vibrant second city of food, history and nightlife.
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Rhodes
The largest Dodecanese island, with a walled medieval Old Town and long beaches.
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Zakynthos
An Ionian island known for Navagio (Shipwreck) Beach and its loggerhead turtle nesting bays.
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Zagori (Zagorochoria)
A cluster of stone mountain villages in Epirus above the dramatic Vikos Gorge, linked by old arched bridges.
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Amorgos
The easternmost Cycladic island, dramatic and little visited, known as the filming location for the film "The Big Blue" and for the cliffside Hozoviotissa Monastery built into a sheer rock face.
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Hydra
A car free Saronic island close to Athens, its stone harbour town built up the hillside and explored on foot, by water taxi, or by donkey, the island's only forms of local transport.
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Ikaria
A 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.
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Kefalonia
The largest of the Ionian islands, known for the turquoise waters of Myrtos Beach, the Melissani cave lake, and the Robola vineyards on the slopes of Mount Ainos.
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Lefkada
An Ionian island connected to the mainland by a causeway and floating bridge, so it's reachable by car, with beaches like Porto Katsiki ranked among Greece's best.
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Milos
A volcanic Cycladic island famed for its lunar white cliffs and coloured coves at Sarakiniko and Kleftiko, and as the discovery site of the Venus de Milo statue.
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Naxos
The largest and most fertile of the Cyclades, with a mountainous village dotted interior, the Portara ancient temple gate at its harbour entrance, and well regarded local potatoes and cheese.
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Paros
A central Cycladic island balancing lively resorts with quieter villages like Lefkes, plus windsurfing beaches at Golden Beach and the marble built Panagia Ekatontapiliani church.
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Symi
A Dodecanese island close to Rhodes with a pastel neoclassical harbour built on sponge diving wealth, and the pilgrimage site of Panormitis Monastery.
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Corinth Canal
A narrow, sheer sided canal cut through solid rock in 1893, linking the Aegean and Ionian seas and separating the Peloponnese from mainland Greece, a dramatic stop for photos or bungee jumping en route south.
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Cyclades
The whitewashed Aegean island group, Mykonos, Santorini, Paros, Naxos and more, the postcard image of Greece.
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Dodecanese
The southeastern island group including Rhodes and Kos, closest to the Turkish coast.
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Elafonissi
A pink tinged sandy lagoon on Crete's southwest tip, one of Greece's most striking beaches.
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Epidaurus
The 4th century BC theatre in the Peloponnese, famous for near perfect acoustics and summer festival performances.
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Ionian Islands
The greener, wetter western island group, Corfu, Paxos, Lefkada, Kefalonia and Zakynthos, with a strong Venetian legacy.
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Nafplio
An elegant Peloponnesian port town, Greece's first modern capital, watched over by the Palamidi fortress.
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Olympia
The sanctuary in the western Peloponnese where the ancient Olympic Games were held from 776 BC.
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Vergina
A small town near Thessaloniki whose royal Macedonian tombs, including that of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great, form a UNESCO World Heritage Site with treasures displayed in an underground museum.
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Acropolis
The ancient citadel of Athens crowned by the Parthenon, Greece’s most famous monument and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Aegina
The closest major island to Athens, an easy Saronic Gulf day trip world famous for its pistachios and crowned by the hilltop Temple of Aphaia.
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Cape Sounion
The clifftop Temple of Poseidon at the southern tip of Attica, about 70km from Athens, one of Greece’s finest sunset views.
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Poros
A pine covered Saronic Gulf island close to Athens, separated from the Peloponnese by a narrow strait, with a fragrant lemon grove a short boat ride across the water.
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Samos
A lush, mountainous North Aegean island near the Turkish coast, birthplace of Pythagoras and known for its sweet Muscat wine and the ancient tunnel of Eupalinos.
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Skiathos
The liveliest of the Sporades islands, ringed by pine forest and sandy beaches, with Koukounaries among the most photographed in Greece.
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Caldera
The flooded volcanic crater that gives Santorini its dramatic cliffs and sunset views.
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Parthenon
The 5th century BC temple to Athena atop the Acropolis, the defining monument of classical Greece.
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Windmills
Whitewashed stone windmills dot the Cyclades, once used to grind grain in the strong Aegean meltemi winds. Mykonos's row of restored windmills above the harbour is the most photographed example.
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Delos
A sacred, uninhabited island near Mykonos and one of the most significant archaeological sites in the Cyclades, linked in mythology to the birth of Apollo and Artemis.
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Mycenae
A UNESCO listed Bronze Age citadel in the Peloponnese, entered through the monumental Lion Gate, once the seat of the legendary King Agamemnon and a cornerstone of Greek mythology.
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Mystras
A UNESCO listed Byzantine city near Sparta in the Peloponnese, its ruined palaces, churches and fortress climbing a hillside and offering one of Greece's most striking archaeological sites.
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Monemvasia
A dramatic castle town on a rocky islet off the south eastern Peloponnese, its car free medieval old town of stone lanes and churches connected to the mainland by a causeway.
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Navagio (Shipwreck Beach)
A cove on Zakynthos accessible only by boat, famous for its rusting shipwreck resting on white sand beneath towering limestone cliffs, one of Greece's most photographed beaches.
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Balos Lagoon
A turquoise lagoon on the Gramvoussa peninsula in western Crete, backed by pink tinged sand and reached by boat trip or a rough coastal track.
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Sarakiniko Beach
A striking beach on Milos with smooth, white volcanic rock formations carved by wind and sea into a lunar looking coastline, backed by clear turquoise water good for swimming and cliff jumping.
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Chios
An eastern Aegean island famed for its mastic producing villages, medieval fortified settlements and distinctive black and white geometric house decoration found nowhere else in Greece.
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Folegandros
A small, dramatic Cycladic island with a clifftop old town, wild landscapes and a peaceful atmosphere, popular with travellers seeking a quieter alternative to its busier neighbours.
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Kastoria
A lakeside town in Greek Macedonia built on a promontory into Lake Orestiada, long known internationally as a centre of the fur trade and now also a tourist destination.
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Patmos
A small, spiritually significant Dodecanese island where Saint John is said to have written the Book of Revelation, home to the fortified Monastery of Saint John.
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Pilio (Pelion)
A green, mountainous peninsula in Thessaly dotted with traditional stone villages perched on forested slopes or along the seashore, popular for walking and cooler summer air.
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Tinos
A Cycladic island known for its marble craftsmanship, dovecotes and the pilgrimage church of Panagia Evangelistria, giving the island a notably calm, devotional atmosphere.
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Samaria Gorge
A dramatic gorge in western Crete, declared a national park in 1962 to protect the endangered kri kri wild goat, and a celebrated destination for long distance trekking.
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Mount Olympus
At 2,917 metres the highest mountain in Greece and a national park, with marked routes from Litochoro and mountain refuges near the summit ridge.
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Vikos Gorge
One of the world's deepest gorges relative to its width, cutting through the Zagorochoria region of Epirus and protected within the Vikos Aoos National Park, home to rare flora and fauna.
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Kos
A flat, cycle friendly Dodecanese island with long beaches, Roman and Hellenistic ruins and the Asklepieion healing sanctuary.
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Skopelos
A pine covered Sporades island of steep coves and a stacked harbour town, widely recognised from the Mamma Mia! films.
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Halkidiki
The three fingered peninsula south of Thessaloniki: Kassandra for resorts, Sithonia for quieter coves, and Mount Athos, the monastic peninsula that is closed to women.
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Ioannina
A lakeside city in Epirus with an Ottoman era fortress quarter, silversmiths and a small inhabited island reached by ferry.
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Kalamata
The main city of Messenia, known for its olives, a long seafront and as the gateway to the Mani.
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Nafpaktos
A small Gulf of Corinth town with a perfectly circular Venetian harbour beneath a hillside castle.
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Parga
An amphitheatre shaped resort town on the Epirus coast beneath a Venetian castle, facing Paxos.
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Sifnos
A Cycladic island with a strong pottery and cooking tradition, a chain of whitewashed villages and a well marked network of walking trails.
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Ithaca
The Ionian island identified with Odysseus’s homeland, green, quiet and reached mainly via Kefalonia.
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Spetses
A Saronic island with a shipbuilding history, grand captains’ houses and horse drawn carriages in place of cars in the old town.
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Diros Caves
A spectacular system of water filled caves on the Mani peninsula in the Peloponnese, explored by boat along an underground lake beneath striking stalactite formations.
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Kythira
An isolated island off the southern Peloponnese, administratively part of the Attica region, with waterfalls, a Venetian chora and few crowds.
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Lesvos
A large north Aegean island known for ouzo from Plomari, a petrified forest, olive groves and serious birdwatching.
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Nisyros
A Dodecanese island built around an active volcanic caldera that visitors can walk down into.
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Prespa Lakes
Two high altitude lakes shared by Greece, Albania and North Macedonia, forming a rich wetland habitat for pelicans and other birdlife within a protected national park.
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