Photographic Guide to Greece

Greece is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. The country has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east.
The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the tenth longest coastline in the world, featuring a vast number of islands, including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian islands.
Modern Greece traces its roots to the civilization of ancient Greece, generally considered to be the cradle of Western civilization. As such, it is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western literature and historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama, including both tragedy and comedy.
Turbulent history, which left traces in the form of countless monuments and museums and przebogatych warmest climate on the continent, promote mass tourism. The most interesting tourist attractions include: Athens, Delphi, Meteora, Dion, Epidauros, Corinth and the Greek islands of Santorini, Crete, Rhodes.

   

    Discover, visit, and getting to know Greece through the images.

Athens	Delphi
Dion	Epidavros
Korinthos	Litochoro
Meteora	Mykens
Nafplio	Paleos Panteleimonas
Paralia - Olimpic Beach	Thermopile
Thira (Santorini)

  Population, interesting facts, figures, facts, sayings, places, people ...

 

The population of Greece is 11.2 million inhabitants 

                                                 

Nearly 1 / 5 of Greece falls to about 3,000 islands, of which 167 are inhabited.

                                                 

I once counted all the islands, islets and stone chippings forming from the sea - it turned out that their 9835.

                                                 

Nearly 81% of the occupied Greek mountains (mean elevation 1200-1800 m), 

                                                 

Greek language is reportedly the largest vocabulary of all languages of Europe.                                          

                                                 

Greeks rarely taken across Europe to heart disease.

                                                 

At the unfinished border crossing between Greece and Albania run "donkey taxi".

                                                 

Greek language is the oldest authenticated European language writing.

                                                                                            

Throughout Greece, education is free.

                                                 

In Greece, the drugs are the cheapest in Europe.

                                                 

Throughout Greece, a town have only Athens and Thessaloniki.

                                                 

In Greece, the marble is so cheap material that most Greeks have decorated this flat stone. (The last new fireplaces are - despite the warm climate).                                                

1 falls on a Greek olive tree 14 (statistics were higher were it not for fires).

                                                 

Greek morning after waking to drink a glass of red wine.

                                                 

Part of the Greeks between 7 and 9 am zamaczają in the sea on the neck and face so about an hour (sea water preserves the body and affect the well-being.

                                                

W / R g Eurostat 2005. The Greeks belong to the three (along with Malta and Cyprus) the most religious countries of the EU.

                                                

In Greece, more and more revives ancient polytheism or worship of the resurrection of many deities.

                                               

Most of the Mount Athos region occupies the territory of the Republic of theocratic - Member of the Orthodox monks. From the ninth century in his area are not allowed in women and female mammals.                                                

                                                                                                     

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