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Santorini - magical volcanic island

Santorini is located in the Aegean Sea and it's the southernmost island of the Cyclades island group. The island covers an area of ​​76km2 and it's one of the largest marine extinct volcanoes in the world. On this most romantic Greek island, you will enjoy in this exquisitely clear water while perched on the rim of a massive active volcano in the middle of the sea, as well as the

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Holy Mount Athos in snow

In January 2017, snow completely covered the Mount Athos ("Holy Mountain") and the monasteries. According to the Hilandar monks, it is the biggest snow in the last ten years.
Enjoy photos of the monk Dositej Hilandarac.

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Record number of tourists in Greece in 2017

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

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Summer vacation nearby Kavala

_Author of Text and Photography: Dusica Penovic _

When we first started looking for information about the places around Kavala, we could not find a lot of informations, and Iraklitsa and Peramos were described and photographed that it looks like there is nothing in these two places, and that their only advantage is location, near Kavala and Ammolofoi beach.

When we visited these places, we were conviced actually it is not like

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Ierissos

Christos Karastergios is an active member of Facebook group Live from Greece and his comments and posts make a good contribution to the group.

Christos lives in Ierissos, and since there is little information about Ierissos and Athos on the Internet, we will try to change that.

What's interesting is that Ierissos is the only place on Athos where native Greeks live, while in other places people from Asia settled in.

Christos is

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Chios - the island of wild tulips and orchids

Chios belongs to a group of islands called Cyclades, located in the Aegean Sea, very close to Turkey.

Except for the mastic, Chios is famous for its untouched nature and its rich flora.

Staying in Chios in May is a real pleasure because of the beautiful nature.

The autochthonous species of Tulip grow in Chios, that the islanders call "lalades". In March wild fields and meadows are covered with these beautiful plants.

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Tolls

One new toll booth was planned to be set in Egnatia Odos, nearby Asprovalta.

In April started the construction of one more on the way Thessaloniki - Seres - Promahonas, so the travellers from Bulgaria to Greece will have some extra costs in the future.

The third toll road will be set on the road Thessaloniki Oreokastro, and will wait all tourists who take a detour around Thessaloniki to the Chalkidiki and

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