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All Inclusive Holidays to Greece
Modern Greece is better known as a great place to vacation rather than a centre of learning and culture. Today the country attracts by offering simple pleasures: delicious food at reasonable prices, local wine, beautiful beaches, hotels, sunshine, quaint villages, a seemingly endless lacework of coastline and little islands full of scenic surprises.
The myriad islands in the Aegean Sea are easily accessible from Piraeus, the historic harbour of Greece's mainland capital, Athens, by ferry or hydrofoil, offering a unique chance for 'island-hopping'. Many of the larger islands also have airports with connections to Athens or seasonally with major European cities. Popular holidays destinations are Halkidiki, Kefalonia, Lefkas, Lesvos, Parga, Skiathos, Thassos, Halkidiki
On the mainland the city of Athens in the south of Greece is sprawling, overcrowded and polluted but nevertheless enthralls visitors, while Thessaloniki in the north of Greece is vibrant and modern with a Byzantine flavour.
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Holiday Resorts in Greece |
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The island of Corfu, best known of the seven Ionian islands that lie off the north-west coast of Greece, differs markedly from the other popular Greek islands because not only is it green and lush, but also very developed with tourist resorts and hotels... |
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The island of Crete is equipped with more tourist facilities than any other Greek island, which is fair enough because it is the largest. The reason why thousands of foreigners visit Crete each year, however, is not so much for the traditional Greek island... |
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This island of the Dodecanese group has been taken over almost completely by tourism, catering especially for family holidays. Aside from the drawcard of beautiful beaches, Kos has an abundance of interesting ruins to explore, and is easily reached from Rhodes or Bodrum (Turkey) by ferry.... |
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The town of Rhodes, on the northern point of the island, has preserved its picturesque walled old city as a playground for all the visitors. In ancient times the harbour here was guarded by the legendary Colossus of Rhodes... |
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IThe Ionian island of Zante (also called Zakynthos) has been colourfully billed as 'the green island of poetry, song and love', mainly because it was the home of Dionysios Solomos, who wrote the Greek national anthem, 'The Hymn to... |
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image:© GNTO, Greek National Tourist Office |
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Mykonos, the upmarket Greek island is a sophisticated, fashionable favourite destination and probably because of its popularity it has become reputedly the most expensive of all the islands. All the tourists to Mykonos who would like to do some serious... |
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image:© GNTO, Greek National Tourist Office |
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Not only is Santorini one of the most beautiful islands in the world, it is also geologically and archaeologically one of the most dramatic. The island which is also called Thira, is shaped like an enormous pair of jaws encircling a lake filled with pure blue water... |
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Greece's second largest city, was the realm of Alexander the Great and named after his sister, Thessaloniki, when it was founded in 316 BC. It sits in a bowl framed by low hills, facing a bay on the Gulf Thermaikos. Thessaloniki is lively and modern, more attractive than Athens with... |
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image:© GNTO, Greek National Tourist Office |
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