50 Vintage Travel Posters of Greece
Beautiful blue sparkling seas, endless sandy beaches, sunny days, magnificent archaeological sites; all this, and much more, is what attracts people to Greece.
This, through the years, is what has been presented to the world, in the form of striking, colourful, travel posters, bringing thousands of tourists to Greece each year.
Let’s travel back through time, Greek style!
1. This is the oldest Greek travel poster I managed to find:
1929 – Athens and her amazing Acropolis
2. The island of Rhodes, Dodecanese; island of the Knights Templar
Released in 1927
3. Loutraki – A spa Town
Vintage poster 1930s
4. Another poster of Loutraki (where I live) a spa town
Mainland Greece, from the 1930s
5. This is also from the 1930s
Maybe Mykonos as there is one of the famous windmills in the background
6. Rhodes
One of the Dodecanese islands
7. Rhodes – The Island of the Roses
By artist Egon
8. Adipsos is a spa town in Euboea
Many famous people have visited here, including Winston Churchill.
This travel poster is from 1934
9. This one is also advertising the spa towns of Greece
1930s
10. Greece 1937
By Michalis Papageorgiou, for the Greek Tourism Organisation
11. Acropolis and Apollo, by Greek artist Celeste Polychroniade (1904 1985)
Published by the Ministry of Tourism in 1938
12. Mykonos, Cyclades, with her famous windmills 1949
13. The island of Poros
Located In the Saronic Gulf, printed in the 1940s
14. Enjoying the Acropolis Athens
Vintage travel poster
15. The island of Andros, Cyclades:
The nearest island to Athens
16. Vintage poster
Designed by Greek artist Spiros Bassiliou 1947
17. This one shows the deep blue sea and little sailing boats
1948
18. One for the Cyclades:
A collection of over two hundred and twenty islands, the best known being; Mykonos and Santorini
19. Fresco from the walls of the palace at Knossos in Crete
1947
20. The Palace Of Knossos, Crete, 1949
21. One by the Greek Painter, Tetsis
1948
22. Sunny Greece
Vintage travel poster 1950
23. Vintage Greek travel poster by Greek artist Spiro Bassiliou
1957
24. Interesting vintage Greek travel poster
25. By Greek artist Tetsis
1959
26. By the Greek painter Vakirtzis
1955
27. Advertising Aegean Cruises
1955
28. The White Tower of Thessaloniki by Boswell
1955
29. For Crete
1956
30. Travel poster from Air France
George Georget 1959
31. Travel poster for Air France
George Geogret 1963
32. Thessaloniki – showing mosaic
Thessaloniki has many fine Byzantine examples
33. Mosaic
1960
34. More mosaic
1963
35. Vintage Greek travel poster
Freddy Carabott 1961
36. Vintage Greek travel poster
Freddy Carabott 1963
37. Here’s one telling us to visit by car
The best way in my opinion!
38. A very colouful vintage travel poster
1963
39. Vintage TWA travel poster for Greece
40. Another vintage travel poster for Greece
Designed for TWA
41. Enjoying a dip!
42. A lucky black cat!
Santorini.
43. Hydra, Saronic Gulf, in glorious colour!
44. Athens, Parthenon and colourful shutters
1960
45. More Athens and the Acropolis
1960
46. Relaxing in Greece
1970s
47. Vintage travel poster
1970s
48. Travel poster for the island of Rhodes
1970s
49. Greek travel poster
1987
50. Travel poster for Greece 2015
Clever use of mosaic!
Have you bought your ticket yet?
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