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Mani, located on the Peloponnese Peninsula, which was known in The Middle ages and Ottoman era as Morea, was one of the most inaccessible, wildest and mutinous parts of Greece which up...
Each year thousands of visitors travel to Greece and flock to all the usual tourist attractions. They sun themselves on the golden beaches and swim in the warm, turquoise waters, totally unaware...
Caryatids are draped, sculpted female figures, supportive Goddesses so to speak, used as decorative support in place of columns or pillars, called in Greek Karyatides. The most famous caryatids of Greece stand...
Owing to the fact that only 18% of the rocky, infertile land of the small volcanic island of Kalymnos, one of the Dodecanese in the southeast Aegean, Greece, was suitable for cultivation, the...
Pandora’s Box, one of the most loved Greek myths, is also one of the shortest, however, saying that, to fully understand this marvelous myth and how Pandora came to be the first...
The Feast Day of Agios Vasilios, known as Basil the Great Bishop of Caesarea, is celebrated on the first of January, New Year’s Day. Traditionally Greek children don’t receive presents from Santa Claus,...
Saint Spyridon (270 – 348 A.D), Bishop of Trimythous and Patron Saint of the Greek Island of Corfu (Kerkyra in Greek) whose Feast day is celebrated on the twelfth of December, was born...
Philhellenism comes from the Greek word “philos”, meaning friend and Hellenism, meaning Greekness (for want of a better word), it is to have a love, a passion, an enthusiasm, an obsession even,...
The humble, old-fashioned blancmange, which I always thought to be an English, or, due to its name; blancmange (eat white, or white dish), French dessert, has been enjoyed for centuries all over the...
How did Greece come to be called Hellas (Eλλάς- Ellás, Eλλάδος- Elládos), and who are the Greeks? The who, what, when and where, when talking about the Greeks, could go on forever, I...
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