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Visit to Peloponnese and Atika

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

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The Greeks work the most in Europe

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

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Alatsata - Greece in Turkey

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

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Aspros Potamos

Aspros Potamos is interesting and unique hotel in Greece, on the mountain above the Libyan sea, without electricity...

Aspros Potamos or White River is the oldest village in the region Pefki, on south-eastern side of Crete. It is around 1000m far from the coast. This region is famous by untouched nature, wild bays, great canyons, traditional and vivid villages. It is a connection of the sea and the mountains with endogenous

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Mastic from Chios - healing Mediterranean tears

Most tourists from Greece usually bring olive oil, olives, halva, honey... You may need to find out about all the beneficial effects of the mastic, and then to include the products from it in those that you necessarily carry home with you.


The mastic tree grows all over the Mediterranean, but only on the Greek island of Chios grows the one that gives the resin in a greater quantity and of

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High-speed train from Thessaloniki to Athens

From the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in Greece, is published they will operate a high-speed train between Thessaloniki and Athens on June 6. The mentioned relation high-speed train will (together with station standings), cross in 3h and 20 minutes, instead of the previous 6 or more hours. This will be very important for the transport of passengers and for the transport of goods.

By the end of 2019, it is

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Why the Greek island Milos is proclaimed holy island?

Milos is an island that belongs to the group of Cyclades and it is proclaimed a Holy Island by the Greek Orthodox Church.

Christian catacombs from the first century of our era were found on the island and together with the roman (there is an opinion that christian catacombs are older) belong to the most important monuments of early Christianity.

Catacombs were used until the 5th century. During the persecution of the

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