About Greece

With well over a hundred inhabited islands and a territory that stretches from the south Aegean to the Balkan countries. The historic sites four millennia, encompassing both the legendary and the obscure, where a visit can still seem like a personal discovery.

Beaches are parceled out along a convoluted coastline equal to France’s in length, and islands range from backwaters where the boat calls twice a week to resorts as cosmopolitan as any in the Mediterranean.

Modern Greece is the result of extraordinary diverse influences. Romans, Arabs, Latin Crusaders, Venetians, Slavs, Albanians, Turks, Italians, not to mention the Byzantine Empire, have been and gone since the time of Alexander the Great. All have left their mark: Byzantines in countless churches and monasteries; the Venetians in impregnable fortifications in the Peloponnese; and other Latin powers. Indeed, many aspects of Western culture came into being in Greece – drama, art, philosophy and science.