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GREECE
Greece on the World Map

Map, flag & national flower
The Sky Blue & White
Acanthus mollis (Bear’s Breech)

Greece
• Official name: Hellenic Republic
• Capital: Athens
• Currency: Euro
• Official Language: Greek
• Foreign Language: English, German, French,
Italian
• National Flag: The Sky and White
• National Flower: Acanthus mollis (Bear’s Breech)
THE CRADLE OF WESTERN
CIVILIZATION
GREECE is considered the cradle of Western civilisation

being the birthplace of democracy, Western
philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political
science, major scientific and mathematical principles,
Western drama and the Olympic Games
TOURISM
• Greece has been a major tourist destination and attraction in Europe since the 1970s
for its rich culture and history
• 18 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
• Long coastline, many islands, and beaches
• Its capital city Athens, as well

as Santorini, Mykonos, Rhodes, Corfu, Crete and Chalkidice are some of the
country's major tourist destinations
• In recent years, Greece has also promoted religious tourism and pilgrimages to

regions with a significant historical religious presence, such as the Christian
monasteries in Meteora and Mount Athos
THE CAPITAL
• Athens is the capital and largest city in Greece
• Athens dominates the Attica region and is one
of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded
history spanning over 3,400 years and its
earliest human presence started somewhere
between the 11th and 7th millennium BC
MONASTIRAKI SQUARE
Monastiraki is a flea market neighborhood in the old town of
Athens, Greece, and is one of the principal shopping districts in
Athens.
Coffee shops in streets of Plaka
Pláka is the old historical neighborhood of Athens, clustered
around the northern and eastern slopes of the Acropolis, and
incorporating labyrinthine streets and neoclassical architecture
Glorious Masterpieces Of The Ancient Times
• Greece is home to marvelous monuments and

UNESCO heritage sites.
• Acropolis in Athens and its stunning museum
• The archaeological site of Delphi
• The open-air island museum of Delos
• The stunning Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki
• The archaeological site of Mycenae
• The breathtaking medieval Old Town of Rhodes.
THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS
The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky
outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of
several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic
significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF DELPHI
The pan-Hellenic sanctuary of Delphi, where the oracle of Apollo spoke,
was the site of the omphalos, the 'navel of the world'. Blending
harmoniously with the superb landscape and charged with sacred
meaning, Delphi in the 6th century B.C. was indeed the religious centre
and symbol of unity of the ancient Greek world.
OPEN-AIR ISLAND MUSEUM OF DELOS
Delos The sacred island of the ancient Greeks, near Mykonos.
An incredible open-air museum, part of the World Heritage
sites of UNESCO since 1990
ROTUNDA – One of Byzantine Monuments of THESSALONIKI
The city of Thessaloniki in Macedonia, Greece, for several
centuries the second-most important city of the Byzantine
Empire, played an important role for Christianity during
the Middle Ages and was decorated by impressive buildings.
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF MYCENAE
Mycenae was a fortified late Bronze Age city located between
two hills on the Argolid plain of the Peloponnese, Greece
THE MEDIEVAL OLD TOWN OF RHODES
Rhodes' nickname is The Island of the Knights, named after
the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, who ruled the island
from 1310 to 1522. The Medieval Old Town of the City of
Rhodes has been declared a World Heritage Site
Beaches & Islands
• Santorini is probably the most popular Greek
Island
• The Greek islands with the best beaches are
Crete, Naxos, Paros, Ios, Milos, Mykonos, and
Rhodes.
SANTORINI
Santorini’s white buildings, windmills and blue domes
CRETE
Agios Nikolaos or Aghios Nikolaos is a coastal town on the
Greek island of Crete
Pilgrimages
• For Orthodox Christians around the world, the
monasteries in Greece are places of major
pilgrimages and are ideal for religious trips to
Greece.
• Almost always built-in beautiful locations, often on
the sites of ancient temples and sanctuaries, the
monasteries symbolise the human attempt to
transcend the earthly.
• Meteora and Mount Athos are just some of the most
famous.
METEORA
The area of Meteora was originally settled by monks who lived
in caves within the rocks during the 11th Century. The
monasteries attracted not only the deeply religious, but the
philosophers, poets, painters and the deep thinkers of Greece.
Today only six of the monasteries are active.
MOUNT ATHOS
The Holy Mount Athos is an autonomous and self-governed
territory of Greece. It occupies the whole of the third peninsula
of Halkidiki Greece
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GREECE

Greece on the World Map

The Sky Blue & White

Acanthus mollis (Bear’s Breech)

GREECE is considered the cradle of Western civilisation

• 18 UNESCO World Heritage Sites

• Long coastline, many islands, and beaches

• Its capital city Athens, as well

• In recent years, Greece has also promoted religious tourism and pilgrimages to

• Greece is home to marvelous monuments and

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