Greece

Hellenic Republic

Regions in travel priority order:

1. Attica (Athens)

• • • Athens (national capital and largest metro) – Acropolis (Parthenon and Erechtheion), Agora and the Temple of Hephaestus, National Archaeological Museum, and the Plaka old quarter
    • Piraeus

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2. Cyclades (Greek Islands)

• • • Santorini – Fira (Orthodox Church of St. Gerasimos, Agios Theodoros, Archaeological Museum of Thera, Folklore Museum, and Museum of Prehistoric Thira), Ancient Thera, and Akrotiri archaeological site
    • Delos – Archaeological Site of Delos, Archaeological Museum of Delos, Naxian Lions, Roman Agora, Ancient Theatre of Delos, Temple of the Delians, Temple of Hercules, Temple of Isis, House of Cleopatra (not the famous one), House with the Masks, and Maison du Trident
    • Mykonos – Mykonos windmills, Boni’s Windmill Agricultural Museum, Armenistis Lighthouse, and Little Venice
    • Naxos – Naxos Town

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3. Peloponnese

• • • Arcadia – Orchomenos and Dimitsana mountain village
    • Argolis – Mycenae, Great Theater of Epidaurus, and Nafplio
    • Laconia – Sparta, Monemvasia, and Mystras
    • Corinthia – Corinth and the Corinth Canal
    • Messinia – Kardamyli

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4. Dodecanese

• • • Rhodes Town on Rhodes
    • Lindos on Rhodes

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5. Central Greece

• • • Phocis – Delphi
    • Boeotia
    • Euboea
    • Evrytania
    • Phthiotis

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6. Western Greece

• • • Elis – Olympia
    • Achaea – Patras (Patras Castle, Saint Andrew Cathedral Church, Roman Odeon Patra, Stairs St. Nicholas, Rion-Antirion Bridge, Archaeological Museum of Patras, Psilalonia Square, and Patras Lighthouse)
    • Aetolia-Acarnania

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7. Crete

• • • Knossos
    • Heraklion Archaeological Museum
    • Samaria Gorge
    • Old Venetian Harbor of Chania Town

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8. Thessaly and the Northern Sporades

• • • Meteora Monasteries

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9. Macedonia

• • • Thessaloniki (national second city)
    • Mount Olympus National Park

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10. Ionian Islands

• • • Ithaca
    • Corfu Town
    • Zakynthos
    • Melissani Cave on Kefalonia

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11. Saronic Islands

• • • Hydra

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12. North Aegean

• • • Lesbos
    • Pyrgi “the painted village” – one of the Mastichochoria villages on Chios

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13. Epirus

• • • Zagorohoria and the Ancient Ruins of Kassope and Nikopolis

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14. Thrace

• • • Old Town of Xanthi

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15. Monastic State of Mount Athos

• • • Mount Athos

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Malta

Repubblika ta’ Malta

• • • Valletta (national capital)

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Albania

• • • Tirana (national capital)
    • Theth National Park

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Cyprus

• • • Nicosia (national capital)
    • Lefkara

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Northern Cyprus

Kuzey Kıbrıs

• • • North Nicosia

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Akrotiri and Dhekelia

(UK bases – no permanent population; on the island of Cyprus)

• • • Akrotiri
    • Dhekelia