Crete : Mykonos : Corfu : Santorini : Rhodes : Athens : Lefkada : Thessaloniki : Paros : Naxos : Kos : kefalonia : Skiathos
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Greek islands of Greece - The ultimate choice
Greece and the Greek islands, are the most popular holiday destinations in the world.
The land of surprise and contrast: clear blue seas bordered by golden sandy beaches high mountains and deep gorges, archaeological sites alongside traditional villages where life flows in a relaxed and friendly manner. With a welcome as warm as the sun, the renowned Greek hospitality makes any visitor, regardless of age, feel more than at home. Zeus, the king of Greek Gods, stood for hospitality and his spirit lives on in the hearts of all Greeks.
Greece and its magical islands offers to all travellers an extraordinary variety of delightful destinations: Athens, Crete( Kreta) Mykonos, Corfu, Rhodes, Santorini...to name but a few!
Plan your holiday or business trip to the Greek islands & Greece, in the most effective way.
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Green, beautiful, and easy to get to, Corfu is a popular destination in Greece. The northern most of the Ionians, Corfu is a long, thin island stretched out along a north-south axis. It runs parallel to the mainland coast, where the two countries of Greece ....
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Mykonos is one of the most cosmopolitan islands in the world, more famous than Capri, more fashionable than Hawaii. But while the summer fills Mykonos with partygoers from around the globe, it can be a pleasant and relaxing island to visit during the .... |
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The largest of the Greek islands, Crete is a land of sparkling seas and soaring mountains, and has been a popular holiday destination for many years. Crete's island position between North Africa and the Greek mainland makes it a stopping off point for .... |
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The city of Athens Greece is spread out over a large area contained by three large hills. Fortunately for the traveler the most important and interesting sites are congregated in the middle of the city around the ancient ruins of Acropolis.
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If you could choose only two or three places that are worth seeing in Greece, Santorini should be one of them. The beauty of Santorini is a wild, otherworldly beauty created by an apocalyptic upheaval and by a volcano that lies in the middle of the .... |
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Rhodes island is the capital of the Dodecanese, and the largest of the island group, it is one of the most visited of the Greek islands with its numerous sandy beaches, un-spoilt interior, and a climate and weather that boasts over 300 days of sunshine a year.
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The islands are Greece’s chief morphological trait and an integral part of the country’s civilisation and tradition.
The Greek territory comprises 6,000 islands and islets scattered in the Aegean and Ionian Sea, a truly unique phenomenon on the European continent, of these islands only 227 are inhabited.
The Greek Archipelago takes up 7,500 km of the country’s total 16,000-km coastline, offering a highly diversified landscape: beaches stretching along many kilometers, sheltered bays and coves, golden stretches of sand with dunes, pebbly beaches, coastal caves with steep rocks and black sand typical of volcanic soil, coastal wetlands...
Many Greek beaches have been awarded the blue flag under the programme Blue Flags of Europe . Apart from swimming, they lend themselves to scuba diving, snorkeling, water skiing, sailing and windsurfing. As they are the cradle of some of the most ancient and prosperous European civilisations (the Cycladic, Minoan civilisations, etc.), the Greek islands boast unique archaeological sites, an outstanding architectural heritage and centuries-old, fascinating local traditions of a multifaceted cultural past. Moreover, 58.5% of the country’s lodging establishments and 62.6% of hotel beds are found on the islands (data for 2003). All the above, combined with the ideal climate, the safety of Greek waters and the short distances between ports and coasts, have rendered the Greek islands extremely popular among Greek and foreign visitors.
Most of the Greek islands lie in the Aegean Sea and are divided in seven groups (from north to south):
The Northeastern Aegean islands
Agios Efstratios, Thassos( Thasos), Ikaria, Lesvos( Lesbos), Limnos( Lemnos), Inousses, Samos, Samothraki, Chios( Hios), Psara
The Sporades: Alonissos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Skyros
The Argo-Saronic islands: Angistri, Aegina, Poros, Salamina, Spetses, Hydra( Hidra) and the coastal area of Methana
The Cyclades islands:
A group of 56 greek islands, its most important ones being Amorgos, Anafi, Andros( Antros), Antiparos, Delos, Ios, Kea, Kimolos, Kythnos(Kithnos), Milos, Mykonos( Mikonos), Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Serifos, Sikinos, Sifnos, Syros( Siros), Tinos, Folegandros, as well as the “Minor Cyclades” comprising Donousa, Irakleia, Koufonisia and Schinoussa
The Dodecanese:
Astypalea(Astipalea), Kalymnos( Kalimnos), Karpathos, Kastelorizo( Kastellorizo), Kos, Lipsi, Leros, Nissiros( Nissyros), Patmos,
Rhodes( Rodos-Rhodos), Symi( Simi), Tilos, Halki(Chalki).
The Ionian islands: Zakynthos( Zante- Zakinthos), Ithaca( Ithaki), Corfu( Kerkyra- Korfu), Kefalonia, Lefkada( Lefkas), Paxos(Paxi-Paxoi), Antipaxi(Antipaxos), Erikoussa, Mathraki, Meganissi, Othoni, Strofades. These greek islands, together with Kythira, which is however cut-off from the rest, opposite the southern Peloponnese (Lakonia), as well as neighbouring Antikythira, they constitute the Eptanissa ( Ionian islands).
Greece Mainland
When most people think of holidays in Greece they think of the Greek islands. The idea of all these islands, each different from the next, the whitewashed houses and beautiful beaches is an enticement to anyone. But lost in the commotion over Mykonos, Santorini, Rhodes and Corfu is the fact that some of the most beautiful and interesting places in Greece are not on the islands, but on the mainland. Mainland Greece can be broken down into small groups, which comprise of Athens(Athina), the Peloponnese, Thessaly and Central Greece, Epirus and Macedonia and Thrace in the north. |
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