April 29, 2012
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Experience the Amazing Geographical Features of Greece Updated: April 27, 2020 | By Claire | More Greece offers an array of opportunities to explore the country and the culture. There is food, arts, and festivals, but traveling to Greece can also offer an opportunity to explore various geographical features that vary widely within one country. […]
Tags: balkan-peninsula, body-of-water, cyclades, dodecanese, flora-and-fauna, food-arts, geographical-features, greece, isthmus, land-features, mount-olympus, peninsulas, south-eastern-europe, tallest-mountain, three-continents, tourist-hub, traveling-to-greece, view-of-the-sea
Categories: Greece, Nature
December 29, 2011
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Climbing highlights of Europe Updated: December 29, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More It’s a little unfair to list climbing highlights in Europe, as other equally great destinations will be left out, but here is just a sample of the best places that you can climb in the Europe. However this time we are […]
Tags: ancient-greek-gods, ascent, birthplaces, cable-car, caucasus-mountains, climbers, climbing-shoes, courmayeur, giant-rock, highest-mountain-in-europe, italy-and-france, jason-blue, matterhorn, mont-blanc, mount-elbrus, mount-olympus, mountaineering, rock-climbing-equipment, walking-tour
Categories: France, Greece, Italy, Nature, United Kingdom
October 2, 2011
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Pindus Mountain – the spine of Greece and one of the greatest natural wonders Updated: October 2, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More In the northern part of Greece, at the border with Albania, there is one of the most impressive mountain ranges in the country, the mountains of Pindus (known also as Pindos […]
Tags: aigo, chamois, chasm, epos, greece, highest-mountain-in-greece, hiking-trails, impressive-mountain, melting-snow, mount-olympus, mountain-peaks, mountain-ranges, mountains, natural-phenomenon, natural-wonders, nature, oros, pindos, pindus, pindus-mountain, underground-lake, vertical-walls, vikos-gorge, wild-boars, wild-cats
Categories: Greece, Nature
May 20, 2011
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Mount Olympus (Ólympos) is the highest mountain in Greece and, far more significantly, the mythological home of the twelve Olympian gods — the sacred peak where Zeus ruled, Athena was born from his head, and the ancient Greeks believed the boundary between the mortal and divine worlds was at its thinnest. Rising to 2,918 metres […]
Tags: 15th-century, biosphere-reserve, dionysus, greece, greek-gods, highest-mountain-in-greece, holy-trinity, meteora-monasteries, monastery, monk, mount-olympus, mountain, national-park, nature, paintings, pantheon, perimeter-walls, robbers, tourist-destination, turkish-rule
Categories: Greece, Nature
October 21, 2010
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Nicosia (Lefkoşa) is the world’s last divided capital — a city split by the United Nations Buffer Zone (the Green Line) since 1974, where centuries of Venetian, Ottoman, British, Greek, and Turkish heritage collide in a fascinating urban landscape of medieval walls, Byzantine churches, Ottoman mosques, and a contemporary café culture that somehow thrives across […]
Tags: 16th-century, byzantine-museum, capital-of-cyprus, city, city-mosques, city-walls, cyprus, famagusta-gate, freedom-square, greeks, inhabitants, island-of-cyprus, lefkosia, mount-olympus, mountain-peaks, nicosia, republics, selimiye-mosque, thick-wall, three-gates, town, turkish-republic-of-northern-cyprus, turks, venetians
Categories: Cyprus, Sights
April 28, 2010
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Greece – Metaxa and olives Updated: September 21, 2020 | By Claire | More Greece (or also Hellenic Republic) is a country situated in southern Europe on the south of Balkan Peninsula and on Corinth Peninsula. It has more than 11 million inhabitants in an area of 131,000 square kilometers. Population density is around 81 […]
Tags: aegean-sea, athens-greece, balkan-peninsula, crete, cyclades, dodecanese, dolmades, excessive-heat, featured, fragrant-herbs, garlic-olive-oil, greece, greek-alphabet, greek-cuisine, greek-restaurants, greek-salads, greek-yogurt, hellas, hellenic-republic, ionian-islands, ionian-sea, land-borders, light-sauces, local-delicacy, longest-coastline-in-the-world, mainland-greece, mediterranean-sea, metaxa, mount-olympus, muska, olives, population-density, republic-of-macedonia, roasted-peppers, south-greece, southeastern-europe, square-kilometers
Categories: All Countries, Greece