Geography of Greece

The 75-year old missing French tourist was found dead on Sunday morning on Crete island.

The car he had rented was found on the beach Livari, southeast of Agios Nikolaos. His body was found in advanced sepsis in a cliff a few kilometers from where he had left his car.

The causes of his death have not been made known yet.

Halkidiki stood out at this year’s World Tourism Expo – World Heritage Cities and Sites, which was held in Padova last month and received a special award for its prominent son, philosopher Aristotle.

A short documentary of 20 mins duration shows what happened to the neoclassical houses that once dotted Athens. These architectural gems around the city slowly fell into decay, destroyed forever.

This short documentary by Nikos Grammatikopoulos, titled “Athens Before the City”, was created in 1980 and received the Critics Choice award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1980…

Elafonisi is a place of an exceptional natural beauty with white sand beaches and shallow turquoise waters. It is located in the southwest end of the prefecture of Chania, Crete and is one of the favorite destinations of locals and tourists.

If you ever visit Crete, you should definitely visit Elafonisi and experience in person its unique beauty.

A Mykonos businessman on Thursday filed a lawsuit with the COuncil of State (CoS), Greece’s supreme court, calling for the cancellation of the VAT hike on Greek islands. The businessman states that the ministerial decision calling for the gradual abolition of the low VAT rate for islands in the Aegean is contrary to European law.

A group of 44 travel and tourism professors from Slovakia visited the island during September 26-18. They discussed with the island’s municipality the “possibility of a new cooperation in regards to school tourism”.

The film-documentary “Hail Arcadia” after its successful premiere at the 18th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival will come to Athens and Thessaloniki theatres on October 15.

It was awarded by FIPRESCI for best film 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

Thirty seven antiquities from an illegal excavation were found and confiscated in Negros cave on the island of Astypalea during a police investigation.

The confiscated antiquities are dated back to the Late Neolithic Period, the Classical and the Hellenistic Era and the Late Antiquity.

Greece has its own ‘Blue Lagoon’ offering alternative relaxing moments. A magnificent scenery which will take your breath away. Lakes, waterfalls, rivers in Polilimnio Canyon in Messinia.

Dozens of animals are in danger of extinction due to the destruction of biodiversity, illegal hunting, pollution and climate change. A precious part of nature is wiped out with each disappearance. In Greece, there are efforts to protect wildlife thanks to the efforts of groups like WWF Greece.

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