Crete

Destination

Greece, explore your senses

In Greece, you can stand at a crossroads of cultures, colours and civilisations. You can truly feel the grandeur of history and the warmth of being at the southernmost part of Europe. You can also explore the evolutionary process of thought, influence and experience.

Greece is a country with a uniquely affluent historical past, inhabited by people gazing confidently and optimistically into the future. It is a country that although statistically small, is huge in its influence and diversity.

Greece has a landscape that has given us thousands of postcard images but it remains incredibly vibrant and impossible to capture. It is a country of beautiful contradictions, a constant journey in time, from the present to the past and back again. A visit to archaeological sites, museums and monuments all over the country offers a vivid picture of the civilisations in Greece, their achievements in arts and technology from the pre-historic era to modern times.

Visitors can walk through the olive groves, through ancient sites or move to clusters of sparsely inhabited and stunningly beautiful islands. Greece has 6,000 islands and islets scattered in the Aegean and Ionian Sea.

You can roam from beaches to rocky mountains and explore a genuinely breathtaking scenery. The Greek mountains are renowned for their diversity, landscapes of singular beauty and unique forests, many of which rank among the oldest natural wooded lands in Europe.

Greece has abundant natural gifts; thousands of indented coasts, imposing rocky massifs, caves, gorges, lakes, rivers, biotopes of spectacular beauty and unique natural habitats and coupled with the mild climate, it can claim to be one of the world's most desirable destinations; a chance to really explore your senses.

Greek National Tourism Organisation
www.gnto.gr