14 Most Gorgeous Small Towns in Greece

 

 

Last updated on June 26, 2017 in Greece 2 Comments

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It’s easy to get carried away using superlatives to describe the small towns you’ll find in Greece. But, really, you need words like stunning, picturesque, scenic and beautiful in your descriptions. Anything else just doesn’t do these small villages justice. From sun-kissed beaches in the south to mountain villages in the north, the small towns in Greece emerge as memorable places you’ll want to visit again. And again.

Top 10s in art

Jonathan Jones picks a top 10 from the art world, theme by theme, every week

Greek and Roman Art in the Ancient World (101)

 

Column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), ca. 350–320 B.C.; red-figure
Attributed to the Group of Boston 00.348
Greek, South Italian, Apulian
Terracotta; H. 20 1/4 in. (51.51 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1950 (50.11.4)

10 Top Tourist Attractions in Crete

Last updated on August 18, 2015 in Beaches and Islands, Greece Leave a Comment

Stunning Crete is the largest of the Greek Islands, and also the fifth largest in the Mediterranean. It boasts gorgeous beaches and mountains and is dotted with quaint villages. During the Bronze Age, this beautiful island was the home to the Minoan civilization, which is considered to be the first advanced European civilization, so there are also many historical attractions in Crete. Besides Minoan ruins, visitors can also still see the remains of Ancient Greece, the Venetian era, and the Ottoman period scattered around this island today.

Greek Tourist Attractions

 

In the heart of Athens, the National Garden provides a green oasis for sunny afternoon trips. The Royal Garden has a private garden for the Royal Palace, which is now the Parliament Building. The Public Garden was established in 1923. This is a quiet and peaceful place away from the bustling city with a gorgeous green canopy of trees and vibrant plant life. Statues decorate the gardens as well as flowerbeds and small ruins of antiquity. The gardens of Zappeion can also be found here, which surround the ancient congress hall that was built in the 19th century.

Now a deal has been done, what lies ahead for the Greek economy?

Mykonos

Greece’s banks will reopen on Monday and the country will step back from the brink – but can the nation get back to normal or will it be permanently scarred?

Helena Smith in Athens

The Observer Saturday 18 July 2015

From the end of national Lefts to subversive movements for Europe

Martin Poser – From Marstrand

Dossier: The Greek Symptom: Debt, Crisis and the Crisis of the Left

RP 181 (Sept/Oct 2013) / Article, Dossier, The Greek Symptom

Antonio Negri

When we speak of the globalization of markets we also speak of a limitation imposed on the sovereignty of nation-states. In Western Europe, the essential error of national left-wing movements and parties [des gauches nationales] has been their failure to understand that globalization is an irreversible phenomenon.

Science: A Four Thousand Year History review – a subversive pleasure

 

A 15th-century depiction of the Ptolemy world map, reconstituted from Ptolemy’s Geographia (c. 150)

 

 

Patricia Fara’s history of science contains all the usual suspects, but they don’t all emerge as heroes. Even Darwin gets a kicking

Tim Radford, theguardian.com, Thursday 15 May 2014 

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Who’s Buried in Largest Tomb in Northern Greece? New Finds Raise Intrigue

Archaeologists excavating a massive burial mound in northern Greece have uncovered this female figurine, one of a pair sculpted from marble.

PHOTOGRAPH BY CULTURE MINISTRY VIA AP

A relative of Alexander the Great may lie in the 2,300-year-old burial site.

Heather Pringle

for National Geographic

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

World Digital Library – Greece

 

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10 Tourist Attractions in Greece

 

Written by touropia on August 9, 2011 in Europe – 3 Comments

Greece is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. With over sixty inhabited islands, historic sites that span four millennia, idyllic beaches and towering mountain ranges there is a wide variety of tourist attractions in Greece to explore. And despite the debt crisis with credit downgrades and protest by day, Greece as a travel destination is as popular as it has ever been.