One-day itineraries to discover the best of every city, airport by airport.
Gateway to Minoan civilization, the oldest in Europe, Heraklion preserves beneath Venetian walls built against the Ottomans the remains of a...
Greece's third-largest city, Patras hosts every year one of the oldest and grandest carnivals in Europe, alongside Roman theaters in its historic...
Halfway between Crete and Rhodes, Karpathos preserves traditional customs and living dialects thanks to its historical geographic isolation.A...
The only one of the large Ionian islands connected to mainland Greece by a bridge, Lefkada is home to beaches considered among the Mediterranean's...
Capital of Crete until 1971, La Canea preserves the island's best-preserved Venetian port, with an Ottoman lighthouse closing off the sea...
The narrow white alleys of Mykonos, according to tradition, were intentionally designed to confuse pirates who once attacked the island.The...
Cradle of the Minoan civilization, the oldest in Europe, Crete preserves the palace that according to myth housed the Minotaur's labyrinth.A...
On the Gulf of Messenia, Kalamata lent its name to the renowned olive variety cultivated throughout the surrounding region.The center, famous for...
Governed for two centuries by the Knights Hospitaller, Rhodes houses the largest inhabited medieval city in Europe, a UNESCO World Heritage...
Separated from Turkey by only a kilometer and a half of sea, Samos gave birth to mathematician Pythagoras and houses an ancient tunnel dug from...
Santorini's crescent shape originates from one of humanity's most violent volcanic eruptions, occurred roughly 3,600 years ago and perhaps the...
Built on a peninsula dominated by an Ottoman aqueduct, Kavala was a key port on the Roman Via Egnatia toward the Orient.The center, an ancient...
Easternmost city of mainland Greece, Alexandroupoli overlooks a nineteenth-century lighthouse across a stretch of the Aegean just kilometers from...
Overlooking a lake with an inhabited island at its center, Ioannina was the capital of the powerful and ruthless Ottoman governor Ali Pasha.The...
On the island of Lesbos, birthplace of the poet Sappho, Mytilene remains Greece's greatest olive oil producer alongside a layered historical...
Historic center of fur processing, Kozani hosts an unusual fire ritual on the eve of New Year every year.The center, historic city of furs in...
The largest of the Ionian Islands, Cephalonia hides underground lakes and beaches where water takes on almost unnatural shades of blue.A rental...
The most touristic of the Sporades Islands, Skiathos preserves pine forests that almost touch the water along some of its most celebrated...
Never conquered by the Ottomans unlike the rest of Greece, Corfu preserves unique Venetian architecture throughout the entire country.The Venetian...
Athens in a day is explored by climbing toward the Acropolis, the symbolic heart of ancient Greek civilization, then descending through the...
Founded in 315 BCE and for centuries the second city of the Byzantine Empire after Constantinople, Salonica preserves some of the best-preserved...
