Argostoli is the capital of the island of Kefalonia, the largest of the Ionian Islands, is a Bay on the Koutavos Lagoon. Loggerhead sea turtle can be seen in the Koutavos Lagoon and is an important step for migratory birds.

There is an archaeological museum where are exposed relics of the Mycenaean, Hellenistic, and Roman era, also in this place there are archaeological sites and other important places such as the cave of Agios Gerasimos.

But what characterizes the island is the Obelisk of stone of the Drapano bridge which lies in the Centre of the bridge, the bridge and the lighthouse of San Teodoro.

The Drapano village has different landscapes, a mountain, a Gulf, a small Bay, and slightly to the North there is an abandoned mine. To the South lies the Drapano bridge, which crosses the Koutavos Lake, is 900 m long and a succession of arches. (more…)

Different archaeologists are always looking for sites related to ancient mythology.
British archaeologists prepared an expedition towards the abandoned quarries of the island of Crete, where there is a very complex network of underground tunnels.
One of the possible versions is that these tunnels were designed by Daedalus to enclose the Minotaur.
This complex is near the city of Gortyn, and may well have hosted the fierce Minotaur, who was the bastard son of Persifae wife of King Minos and a bull manipulated by the God Poseidón. Therefore the King Minos sent to build a maze to lock up the fierce animal.
They primarily related to the Palace of Knossos to the labyrinth of the Minotaur, but now believed that they could well be these caves. (more…)

Léfka Óri means White Mountain, takes nearly all the central part of the West of Crete and is what characterizes the region.
Madares, Léfka Óri or white mountain is a mountain range whose main components are limestone, granite and dolomite.
She remains covered in snow until spring, therefore its name. You have more than 30 peaks exceeding 2,000 metres in height and the highest peak is Pachnes measured 2,453 m, is the second in height of Crete after Mount Ida or Psiloritis and the tenth of Greece, also has more than 50 gorges, among them the famous Gorge of Samaria. (more…)

On the border between Bulgaria and Greece stands this beautiful mountain which in Greek is concoe with the name of Orvilos although in Turkish and Bulgarian has other names. It is located north of the country and to the South of the Pirin mountains and the peak high is Gotsev Vrah which reaches more than 2200 meters in height.

It is an imposing massif shaped dome and very sharp slopes. Of land located so it is full of caves, there are at least thirty, so it is a very attractive destination for those who practice seismologist. If you’re in autumn or winter rains enough, that Yes, so although the temperatures in summer are quite hot will save the rain. The mountain has a flora varied and rich story with more than 1700 species of plants, black pine, Bosnian pine and other animals there are deer, wild bears and wolves. (more…)

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…)

Crete is one of the major destinations of holiday tourists about something Greece. The island is adorned by a mountain range in the side, in the Prefecture of Lassithi, and one of this trail of peaks mountains is Mount Dikti.

Greek mythology on this same mountain in a cave called Dictaeon Andron, the god Zeus was raised. It is a mountain range with many plateaus, peaks side and beautiful valleys. Much of the mountainous area is covered with trees, including the vast majority are pines, Oaks, cypress trees and maples. Overlooking mount Dikti is the same Lassithi plateau, a very nice site, the more beautiful of Crete and also a place with an ancient history by the story of Zeus. (more…)

Kefala Hill is between two rivers to the southwest of Gournes, in the peripheral unit of Heraclion (formerly prefecture), on the island of Crete.
The Hill is presumed there was Minoan settlements. Close from there, Soros have found ceramics of the periods of archaic, classical, and Hellenistic.
In the Cretología Congress in Rétino was released on Kefala Hill had been found ruins of an ancient temple.
Niko Panagiotaki archaeologist has found the ruins of a temple which may well be the greatest Greek temple of Crete. (more…)

Greek Islands cruises are an irresistible invitation to enjoy to the maximum of vacation, visiting some of the most attractive of the Mediterranean cities and the Aegean. Along their journey travellers may know the best of gastronomy and culture.

The Cruiser Pullmantur Venetian Rondo, which makes stop in charming destinations how Venice, Dubrovnik, Athens and the beautiful Greek islands of Mykonos, Rhodes and Santorini is especially recommended. (more…)

To the southeast of Sparta are the Ruins of the Menelaus, or Menelaus sanctuary, on the left side of the Eurotas River.

The ruins of the sanctuary of Menelaus and Helena in the massif of Mount Taygetus.
Menelaus was King of Sparta, main protagonist in the war of Troy, husband of Helen, who was abducted by the Trojan Prince Paris. Helena was said to be the most beautiful woman of Greece and the world. One of the many versions says that King Menelaus and his wife Helena are buried there in the massif of Mount Taygetus. Another version says that Helena is buried on the island of the rhodians and there is also a mausoleum, or was divinizada and went to live in the Champs-Elysées. (more…)