Kea also known as Tzia, belongs to the Group of Cyclades and is the closest of these islands in Attica. This is perhaps the reason that despite the rare beauty of the island, usually escapes the attention of many tourists in Greece and remains popular target mainly for the Athenians.
Tinos is an island belonging to the group of Cyclades in Greece and is mostly known for the monastery of miraculous Evagelistria (Virgin Mary). However, as you can see Tinos has several treasures that make it a very interesting island.
Cape Sounion located at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula in Greece. It is noted as the site of ruins of an ancient Greek temple of Poseidon, the god of the sea in classical mythology.
Santorini is an island in the southern Aegean Sea and the southernmost member of the Cyclades group. Santorini is essentially what remains after an enormous volcanic explosion that created the current geological caldera.
This gallery includes Greek landscape pictures, which I took on the road for another target.
Olympia in Greeceh is the birthplace of the Olympic Games. The first Olympic Games were held here in 776 B.C.
Nafplio is a seaport town in the Argolic Gulf of Peloponnese in Greece. The town was the first capital of modern Greece, from the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821 until 1834. Nafplio is now the capital of the regional unit of Argolis.
Mystras is a fortified town and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Situated on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta, it served as the capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea in the 14th and 15th centuries, experiencing a period of prosperity and cultural flowering.
Mykonos is considered as one of the most beautiful and famous islands of Greece. As you can see from the pictures it deserves any discrimination. It is definitely the star of the Cyclades group.
Mycenae is an archaeological site in Greece, located in the north-eastern Peloponnese. In the second millennium B.C. Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece.
Poros is a small Greek island in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf and separated from the Peloponnese by a 200-metre wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas on the mainland.
Messinia is a regional unit in the southwestern part of the Peloponnese in Greece.
Mani is the central peninsula of the three which extend southwards from the Peloponnese in southern Greece.
Laconia is part of the region of Peloponnese in Greece. It is situated in the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. Its administrative capital is Sparta.
Kythera is an island located opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece. According to Greek mythology the Kytherian sea is the birthplace of goddess Aphrodite.
Hydra is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece, located in the Aegean Sea between the Saronic Gulf and the Argolic Gulf.
The theater was designed by Polykleitos the Younger in the 4th century BC. The theatre is marveled for its exceptional acoustics, which permit almost perfect intelligibility of unamplified spoken word from the proscenium or skene to all 15,000 spectators, regardless of their seating.
Elafonissos is a very small island on the Southern Eastern Tip of Peloponesse in Greece.
Delphi was the most important oracle in the classical Greek world and a major shrine of Greece for the worship of Apollo.
Attiki is a historical region of Greece, containing Athens, the current capital of Greece. The historical region is centered on the Attic peninsula, which projects into the Aegean Sea.
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC.
Andros is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago. Stands out for its fantastic beaches and breathtaking landscapes
The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and containing the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.