Off-the-Beaten-Path Greece | Five Villages Where Myth Lives in the Landscape
Tired of crowded islands? The Greece that most visitors encounter is organized around monuments. The Parthenon, the Knossos palace, the Delphi sanctuary, the Epidaurus theatre: these are the sites that…
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Patmos | The Island That Declared Itself Sacred and Meant It
The voice came through a crack in the rock. St. John, known in Christian tradition…
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The river that runs through this gorge, according to Pausanias, was the coldest river in…
The Zagori Villages of Epirus | Where Stone Bridges Lead to Another Century
There is a specific silence in the Pindus Mountains that exists nowhere else in Greece.…
The Peloponnese | The Peninsula That Contains Five Thousand Years
The peninsula is named for a man whose flesh Tantalus served to the gods. Pelops,…
The Mani | Where Greece Built Towers for the Living and Laments for the Dead
Greece has been softening itself for tourists for decades. Not dishonestly. The islands genuinely are…
Lefkada | The Island That Keeps Choosing to Be One
Lefkada is the only Greek island that was deliberately built as an island. Every other…