Creta

Crete is not only the largest island in Greece, but a true miniature continent floating in the heart of the Mediterranean, suspended between myth and reality. Defined by the ancients as the 'land of the center', this isl...

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Isole Ionie

Suspended between the deep blue of the Ionian and the emerald green of luxuriant vegetation, the Ionian Islands represent a cultured and refined exception in the Greek landscape. Also known as the Heptanese, or the «Seve...

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Tessaglia

Anyone crossing Thessaly by train or car immediately notices a tear in the landscape: kilometres of wheat and cotton fields as flat as a table and, suddenly, without warning, towers of grey rock dozens of metres high tha...

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Sporadi

The ferry from Volos has barely cut its engines before the scent of pine resin drifts into the cabin, mixed with salt: it rarely happens, in the Aegean, that an archipelago announces itself by smell before by sight. The...

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Featured region Albania

Riviera Albanese

There is a coast in Albania that the first European travellers of the twentieth century called the Riviera of the Flowers of the Orient, and not without reason: the Albanian Riviera drops steeply from the Ceraunian Mount...

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Featured region Greece

Macedonia Occidentale

At the exact point where the borders of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia meet, amid the waters of Lake Prespa, there is no dramatic signpost: only reed beds, the low flight of pelicans and the silence of a land that f...

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Featured region Greece

Grecia Centrale

According to myth, Zeus released two eagles from opposite ends of the world and sent them flying toward one another: they met over a valley at the foot of Mount Parnassus, and it was there that the stone of the omphalos,...

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Egeo Settentrionale

From Chios to the Turkish coast at Cesme the sea measures barely seven kilometers: you can see the land opposite with the naked eye, yet everything here has spoken Greek for three thousand years. The North Aegean is an a...

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Featured region Montenegro

Montenegro Centrale

Podgorica has changed its name four times in less than a century — Ribnica, Podgorica, Titograd, and Podgorica again — while some thirty kilometres away Cetinje still holds the official title of "royal capital" even thou...

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Grecia Occidentale

Travelers arriving by ferry from Ancona, Bari, or Brindisi first see the lights of the port of Patras, and then, looking west, the suspended arch of the Rio-Antirrio bridge that welds the Peloponnese to mainland Greece:...

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Macedonia Orientale e Tracia

1923 was supposed to erase every Muslim presence from northern Greece, as happened elsewhere in the great population exchange between Athens and Ankara. In Thrace, however, the Treaty of Lausanne made an exception: the r...

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Featured region Montenegro

Costa del Montenegro

On April 15, 1979, a magnitude 7 earthquake shook the Montenegrin coast, cracking the Venetian walls of Kotor and sinking part of the pier in Budva: it was precisely from that wound, and from the reconstruction work that...

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