A museum dedicated to the traditional Komboloi in Nafplion

If you like the Komboloi, these bracelets with so typically Greek accounts, then I tell you that you have a beautiful museum that invites you to explore the history of this fixture of this plugin that you’ll see much in the hands of the Greeks and that certainly Travelers back as a souvenir in Nafplion.

The Komboloi Museum was opened in 1988. Founded by a marriage which collected komboloi for years and thus established the first Museum in its kind in the world. The couple traveled much and his travels brought stones, accounts from all parts of the world and has thus managed to make a collection of thousands of tapes with accounts dating from 1700 to 1950 made with ivory, amber, coral, bone, Horn, ebony, and more. (more…)

The Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki was created to show different aspects of art, ideas, social structure and religion during the Byzantine and post-Byzantine and historical changes and the political situation in relation to the daily lives of the inhabitants of the city. (more…)

So, the tourist in Athens can start to go the Central, or South, or why not the north or the west of the city.

In addition, the city can be toured on foot as there is a footpath of about 4 kilometers linking the archaeological sites; for it, you can take the pedestrian street which is called “Dionisiou Areopagitou. ” From there you can climb to the Acropolis to see the Greek Parthenon, and the Erechtheion, the Acropolis Museum, with its thousands of parts and archaeological relics, and the Propylaea.

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Greece is a great winter destination. At the moment not as cold as in the rest of Europe so that the warmth last a little longer this time.

Both December and January is low season here in Greece so there’s less people, good air quality in the capital, best deals on hotels and all the joy and beauty of the celebration of Christmas, New Year and Epiphany.

It’s holiday time and it starts with the feast of St. Nicholas or St. Nikolaos, on 6 December, special day when many Greeks exchanged gifts.

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Athens is one of the oldest cities in Europe and is known worldwide as the cradle of Western civilization. This was the birthplace of democracy as political system, here were born science and philosophy.

Today is the cultural, financial, political and industrial development of Greece for most of the tourists come in search of the past. If you are among them then presents the main destinations of ancient history in Greece:

The Acropolis, or sacred stone, is the most important archeological site in the city. is dedicated to the goddess Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and holds the Parthenon, the most famous Greek temple of all. You can see from anywhere in the city, provides for centuries.

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The Benaki Museum runs into a rich family mansion, built in the nineteenth century, now works as a private foundation, was founded in 1931 in honor of Emmanuel Benaki. His son Anthony Benaki was who built it, being a wealthy Athenian, who made his fortune in Egypt in the cotton business.

The Museum has a collection of high importance both Greek and elsewhere, has works of art from the Mycenaean era, to Greek icons. It also has a sumptuous and eclectic collection of European and Asian, very good. It is one of the most famous Greek museums.

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The catacombs, which are near the town of Tripiti were dug into the soft volcanic rock, 150 meters above sea level, was a wonderful Christian monument, it means that Christians were established on the island of Milos.

It was the first meeting of Christians on the island, was also a Christian cemetery until the fifth century
In that place they met Christians to perform their religious rites and bury their dead.

These are wonderful Greek catacombs are unique in the world of that kind, are at the height of the largest in the world, alongside those of Rome and the Holy Land.

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The word erotic comes from the Greek word eros, which is the word for love and sensual desire.

In modern languages, the word erotic is more concerned with everything related to sexuality, but not just sex.
The Greeks aimed to distinguish between eros and agape love is more romantic.

Among the Phoenicians and the Mesopotamians had a sacred prostitution, which became classical Greece, and when he went to Rome became more in lust, bordering on the pornographic.

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This zoo is located in Athens, which opened its doors in 2000 as a Bird Park, grew over time into what is today one of the biggest attractions of the city, and one of the parks more wildlife zoos.

The purpose of this place is amazing, the animals are in perfect condition, and given the opportunity for people to feel, even for a moment, amid the animal’s habitat, so you can see their habits and characteristics.

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Enclosed building for musical performances at the foot of the Acropolis, in the northeast corner, next to the Theatre of Dionysus. It is the most impressive of all the buildings surrounding the Acropolis.

It was built during the Roman occupation, between the years 161 and 174 AD by the Roman consul Herodes Atticus, a lover of philosophy, art, literature and great admirer of Athens who used his vast fortune in giving generous gifts to the city and beautify it with important public works. The Odeon was built in memory of his wife, Aspasia Annia regilla who had died the previous year.

The “koilon” had 32 rows of seats and a capacity for 5,000 spectators. The walls were lined with marble, the pavement was covered with mosaics (more…)