More than 30 million tourists visited Greece in 2017, breaking the record in the history of greek tourism.

Greece has been known as a tourist destination since ancient Greece, and mass tourism began to develop in the sixties of the last century.

In 2008, Greece was visited by 17 million tourists and each year several million more, in order to have almost doubled number in less than 10 years.

In 2005, China declared

On Christmas Eve in the city of Arnea in Chalkidiki is traditionaly made a Christmas cake that measures 400kg.The main ingredients of the cake are honey and nuts, and preparations have started since early in the morning. It was baked in a 4m2 stump. It was ready for several hours before the Christmas liturgy, cut off and divided to the people on the main square in this beautiful place. This

Like every year, on December 26 (the day after Christmas), Saint Stephen is celebrated in Greece.

On the island of Syros, however, this saint is celebrated in a unique way, in the cave, in the rock, right by the sea.

Dozens of people come to the chapel on liturgy by boats or over the mountain.

A fisherman named Stephen, hardly survived when a huge octopus pulled him to the bottom of the sea.

Author: Ivana Stanojević

Most of you have visited Kavala on your way to Thassos island or beaches around this city. My favourite greek cities are Nafplio, Volos and Kavala. This small excursion was more of a historical and educational character, so we spent the most of the time in historical sites which are so interesting even for the kids from eight in the morning, when we departed from Thessaloniki and

Author: Ivana Petrović

For Peloponnese and Attica 10 days are not enough if you want to see everything what this part of Greece has to offer. I hope that for me this was just the beginning of discovering new localities, archeological sites, cities, places... What I managed to visit is:

- Lutraki, located in the Corinthian Bay (4-5km far from Corinth Channel), at the foothill of Mount Geranium. The city has thermal

Greeks are the most hardworking people in Europe? :) What do you say?
Here is an interesting statistics.
Greeks have a reputation of being overpaid, lazy, and of going to early retirement. However, contrary to what most think, Greeks work the most in Europe.

Official data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development show that Greeks work 42 hours per week on average, which is more than all other EU countries, while

No, it's not Greece. It's Turkey, but the Greek city.

It is a unique Mediterranean city on the west coast of Turkey.

Alatsata is a city inhabited by the Greek population until 1914. At that time, this city had almost 14 000 inhabitants, from which just a little bit more than 100 were Turks.

After the complete Greek population was expatriated or exchanged with the Turkish population from Greece, the city remained empty