Greece Travel holds the travel articles of this site: the best Greek islands, the Cyclades and the Dodecanese, ancient Greek sites, temples, the Parthenon and the Oracle of Delphi, Greek food, coffee, desserts and wine regions, Greek traditions, festivals and dances, mountains, waterfalls and national parks, and the weather of Greece through the year. Each article answers the questions travellers ask in plain words and points to the tours that fit its subject. Multi-day trips across the country are on the Greece tours page.
Odyssey locations are the real and proposed sites behind Homer’s Odyssey, the ancient Greek poem about Odysseus. Trips with a host on this theme take place across the Ionian Islands, Epirus and the Peloponnese. Topics here run from Homer’s Ithaca, Scheria and Nestor’s Pylos to the Menelaion near Sparta. Lefkada, Paliki and the Necromanteion of … Read more
Greece in summer spans June, July and August. In those months, small-group trips cross the islands, the mainland and Crete. This page reads the climate tables for Neos Marmaras, Argos, Lentas and Metsovo. It then turns to the Hyacinthia of Sparta, the Adonia, the Buphonia and the Olympus Festival. Related reads are Greece weather in … Read more
Dodona, an ancient shrine of Zeus, stands in Epirus in north-western Greece, close to the village of Dodoni. Expert-led trips run through Epirus and the rest of mainland Greece. The sections below look at the early finds, the lamellae and the dove stories, and the goddess Dione. They also cover King Pyrrhus, the Molossians, Mount … Read more
Greek islands with ancient ruins stretch from Crete and the Cyclades to Rhodes, Kos, Samos and Samothrace. Small-group outings on these islands run as hosted trips through Greece. Delos, Akrotiri and Ancient Thera feature below, with Lindos on Rhodes and the Asclepieion of Kos. So do the Heraion of Samos, Gortyn, the Temple of Sangri, … Read more
Best Cyclades islands sit in the southern Aegean Sea. Small-group trips with a host or a skipper take place across this island group. This page covers Naxos and its Chora, Paros, Santorini, Mykonos, Milos, Syros, Tinos with Exomvourgo, and Amorgos. Smaller islands follow, among them Kea, Ios, Serifos, Kimolos, Koufonisia and Anafi. Naxos tours and … Read more
Greek souvenirs come from crafts and flavours found across the country. The tours on this page are outings with a host, held in Athens, Thessaloniki, Crete, Naxos and Rhodes. This page covers red-figure pottery, the meander border, Tanagra figurines, the mosaics of Delos and Cretan school icons. It turns to evil eye charms, the crepida … Read more
Greece in spring runs from the March equinox to the June solstice. During that season, tour-leader trips for small groups cross the mainland and the islands. Station readings from Kastoria, Chios and Orestiada sit beside Sieber’s crocus and a southern Aegean tulip. Rüppell’s warbler, the martis thread and the Thargelia festival of Athens follow. Related … Read more
Dodecanese islands lie in the south-eastern Aegean Sea, with Turkey to the east and Crete to the south-west. Outings with a host and longer trips through Greece take place across this island group. Its places include the city of Rhodes, the acropolis of Lindos and the town of Kos. Karpathos, Kalymnos, Leros and Astypalaia join … Read more
Greek gods give their stories to mythology walks and day trips with a host. These outings run in Athens, Olympia, Crete and Thessaloniki. The stories start with the twelve Olympians, then Zeus, Athena, Poseidon, Aphrodite, Hermes, Hephaestus and Ares. Older gods and Titans come next, then four common questions close the page. Related stories run … Read more
Mountains in Greece shape the mainland and the islands. Trips with a host run through these highlands, from Macedonia to Crete. Topics run from Olympus, the Pindus, Smolikas, Kaimakchalan, Tymfi, Vardousia, Parnassus and Mount Athos to island peaks. The list then moves on to Taygetus, Mount Ida and other summits of the Peloponnese and the … Read more
Waterfalls in Greece give a theme to small-group trips across the mainland and the islands. Falls, gorges and rivers shape the land from Macedonia and Epirus to Thessaly, the Peloponnese and Crete. Topics run from Edessa Falls and Balta of Striga to the Gorgopotamos, the Pineios and the Strymonas. Later parts turn to the springs … Read more
Ancient Greek architecture tours are expert-led trips through Greece, from Athens and Cape Sounion to Olympia and Nafplio. The subject reaches from temple columns to open-air theatres. Its key parts include the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders, capitals, friezes, caryatids and pediments. Later parts turn to theatres, stoas, agoras, architects and building stone. Related reading … Read more