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Easter on Thasos

The best time on Thasos is the time around Easter. It is because of the beautiful weather, holiday atmosphere and the arrival of the first tourists. Somehow everything seems merrier, the sea is “more blue”, the people are happier… 

This year, an unusually great number of tourists came to Thasos for Easter. Most of them were Greek and Romanian. All of the cafés and restaurants were open, even the ones that

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One day in Thessaloniki

If you come to Thessaloniki only for a one day, the most beautiful place to spend it is a promenade by the sea.

If you are in Thessaloniki for more than one day or for a weekend click here.)

The most beautiful and favorite part of Thessaloniki, both for visitors and for the local population, is, as expected, a promenade along the sea.

Thessaloniki’s stunning seaside promenade is about 6 kilometers long, and

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Parga by Milica

When I first got out of the tourist bus and stepped the Parga ground, I can freely say that I fell in love immediately. I knew from before that Greece was beautiful and had many beautiful landscapes, beaches, bays, many beautiful islands that need to be seen, but I will never forget the feeling that I have in Parga, nor can it be measured with something else.
Simple fascination with narrow

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A record number of tornadoes and leeches in Greece

Last year, (2017), Greece recorded a record number of smaller tornadoes and water leechers, a total of 145. These data were published by the National Observatory in Athens.

There were exactly 136 aquatic leeches and 9 tornadoes, of which the 5 strongest in Corfu and Paxos caused more material damage.

This is the largest number of ever recorded water leeches in Greece. In Europe, last year there were a total of 616.

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The average temperatures of the sea in Greece

Inspired by the many questions you are sending to us in relation to the sea temperatures in some regions in Greece which we present on our website, we decided to collect and present data on the average maximum and minimum temperatures by months during the summer season.

By clicking each individual place on the map will take you to a diagram with more data.

Diagrams we have separated show the average of

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The best greek products

Greek cuisine and traditional Greek local products are world- famous by their taste and nutritional values.

It is not accidental that last three years 37.000 foreign users, from 145 countries around the world, were searching for Greek products and Greek export companies through official web page of Panhellenic Exporters Association. The most visitors were from USA, Great Britain, China, Germany, Cyprus, Bulgaria, India, Italy, Turkey and France.

There are many traditional

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Museums in Athens and Thessaloniki

Greece is a country with one of the oldest histories in the worls and it is considered to pbe the cradel of the civilisation. There are almost 18 localities on the Unesco World Heritage list. You can find the remainings in each part of the country and that is why the archeological diggings never stop. Every day new informations and things are beeing found and they are helping us understand

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Limenaria carnival

Up until a few years ago the leader in the carnival organization was Panagia. That lead is slowly but surely being overtaken by Limenaria. ʺPure Mondayʺ is the first day of the Easter fast. On that day the carnival parade passes through Limenaria. The carnival is designed in a way that there are groups of people wearing theme masks, individuals representing the most popular people from show business and politics,

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