Tourism in Greece

Here’s the second in a three-part travelogue of several Greek island gems “off-the-beaten path” in the Aegean and the Ionian.

Samothrace: Verdant and utterly …mysterious

Archaeologists working at a dig near Sparta, in the southeastern Peloponnese, announced the discovery of a Mycenaean-era palatial complex dating to the 17th and 16th century BC.
Another highlight was the discovery of several tablets that feature writings in Linear B.

Forget luxurious beach beds and celebrity-filled beach bars, there are still numerous Greek island gems “off-the-beaten path” in the Aegean.

Here are the first three destinations, in the first of a three-part travelogue.

Events at nearly 100 archaeological sites, museums and monuments around Greece are scheduled for the evening of Saturday, Aug. 29, which marks the full moon of summer’s last month.

The latest technology combining geology and IT, such as magnetic cartography, was employed in a series of underwater and coastal research and excavations off Crete this summer.

The workers of ‘Hellas Gold’, the subsidiary of Canadian gold mining company ‘Eldorado’, decided after a long union meeting to take action in protest against the Greek government’s decision to shut down the mining operations at Skouries, Chalkidiki, in northern Greece.

Europe does not fully grasp the magnitude of Syria's refugee crisis and should open its borders to shoulder a responsibility Turkey has been bearing alone, the head of the Turkish relief effort said. 

The transport of refugees and migrants from eastern Aegean islands to mainland Greece continues unabated, as an additional 2,171 Syrian nationals are expected to disembark from the passenger ferry ‘Eleftherios Venizelos’, which was scheduled to dock at the port of Piraeus on Friday afternoon.

A ferry carrying about 2,500 migrants who had arrived clandestinely on Greek islands from the nearby Turkish coast docked on Aug. 20 in Greece's main port of Piraeus near Athens.

Crete is the largest island in Greece and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. It is the birthplace of Europe, where myth has it Zeus abducted a Phoenician princess named ‘Europe’ after he transformed into a stunning white bull. Here is a beautiful video of Crete from the air, shot with a drone and lots of love, as George Bougiakas, the videographer writes during his holiday there.