A place with a calm natural environment, Ilia is located in the western part of the Peloponnese, and it’s an ideal destination for relaxing holidays. Endless beaches with beautiful views of the sea and the sunset, plains with diverse cultures, scenic rivers and lakes, give the area its distinctive colour. Ancient Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympic Games with a worldwide reputation, the archaeological sites of Ilia and the Temple of Apollo ...
Skiathos Island
Skiathos is a lush, green island with over 60 beaches. Depending on where you live, you can just relax or make excursions do sports and enjoy the nightlife. The capital of Skiathos has managed to retain the traditional style, even though every summer thousands of visitors enjoy what it has to offer. As you arrive in port the first thing you notice on your left are the old shipyards, while nearby there is a large lake which also has thousands of ...
The location of the ancient theater of Epidaurus
At The slope of Mount Kinortio, inside the boundaries of the place of worship, lies the most famous and best preserved ancient theater of Epidaurus, the miracle of Epidaurus, as it was called. It was built according to Pausanias, during the 4th century BC by the architect and sculptor from Argos, Polykleitos the Younger. Other scholars date it at the early 3rd century. However, if this is correct, the theatre cannot be regarded as a work of ...
The Minoan civilization on Crete
The Minoan civilization was basically named after the name of a King Minos who ruled on Crete for a long period of time. This era is known as the Bronze Age and is divided into three parts. The Minoan civilization originated from the Stone Age and passing through the evolutionary process for an extended period of time entered the Bronze Age. They used to import and use certain metals like bronze. The other evolutionary steps involved the ...
The island of Kefalonia
The island of Kefalonia which is also known as Cephalonia is the largest island of the Ionian Islands in the western Greece with 36.550 permanent habitats. Argostoli is known as the capital of this beautiful island. The island was almost razed in 1953 after one impressively strong earthquake and started to be rebuilt by its residents. Since then, the island is a continuously developing into a high quality tourist destination. Between the ...
Byzantine church architecture: Influences of culture
Byzantine Empire or the eastern Roman Empire was created to adjust administration control on the kingdom. At the same time there were some remains of the Arabic civilization in all aspects of like. Slowly very slowly the Roman culture and civilization started getting influenced by the remains of another great civilization. To go through the Byzantine church styles it is found that the architecture of the early churches were purely leveraged on ...
Ancient Greek Art – Types of Ancient Greek Jewelry
The history of ancient Greece is very much influenced by the beauty of women. Women of Greece used to specially take care of themselves by wearing luxurious cotton, flax, and wool woven clothes along with jewelry made of gold bronze and gem stones. They used to take special care of their skin by using olive oil to be massaged on their bodies and used to take a bath from goat milk. Many ancient women wanted to have the title of the Greek beauty ...
The island of Ikaria
The island of Ikaria is located in the northeastern Aegean Sea close to the island of Samos. According to the Greek Mythology, Icarus was a mythical man who was flying close to the sun with his wax wings but he fell into the sea and was drowned because his wings had melted down. So, the island was named after him. Ikaria island has a rich history, which is obvious in the Byzantine and Roman archaeological findings and remains. Interesting sights ...