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Rupert Brookes Grave
Rupert Brooke’s well-tended marble grave is in a quiet olive grove just inland from Tris Boukes Bay; it’s marked with a wooden sign in Greek on the roadside. The gravestone is inscribed with Brooke’s most famous sonnet, ‘The Soldier.When Brooke’s fellow naval officers buried him, t
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Western Excavation SIte
This open site, south of the centre, holds fascinating ancient ruins uncovered by the 1933 earthquake. Its real treasures are the mosaics of the House of Europa , dating from the 2nd century AD and protected by rudimentary shelters. In front of them, theres a section of the Decuman
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Street of the Knights
Austere and uncommercialised, the Street of the Knights (Ippoton, in Greek) was home from the 14th century to the Knights Hospitaller who ruled Rhodes. They were divided by birthplace into seven ‘tongues’, or languages – England, France, Germany, Italy, Aragon, Auvergne and Provenc
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Monastery of Kimisis Theotokou
This monastery, 12km north of town, is Psara’s main cultural attraction. It’s a smallish chapel surrounded by protective walls, and containing marble bas-relief sculpture and rare sacred hieratric scripts from Mt. Athos. It’s generally only open on Sundays, and best reached by car.
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Karlovasi Folk Art Museum
Documents life, customs and dress in Karlovasi 100 years ago, when the busy port flourished as a leather-tanning and tobacco-trade centre. Located near the square. Exhibits cover the time period from 1870 until 1955 and document the everyday life of the thriving urban population, a
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Marathon Archaeological Museum
Near the town of Marathon, this excellent museum displays local discoveries from various periods, including neolithic pottery from the Cave of Pan and finds from the Tomb of the Athenians. New finds include several larger-than-life statues from an Egyptian sanctuary in nearby Brexi
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Ancient Mycenae Museum
Part of the Ancient Mycenae complex, this museum is well worth visiting before seeing the rest of the site. It initiates you into the mysteries of Mycenaes construction, its various incarnations and its excavation from 1841 onwards. The displays run the gamut from fine stirrup jars
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Nautical Museum of Inousses
Created in 1965, this handsome museum showcases the collection of local shipping magnate Antonis Lemos. Many of the models on display (some intentionally half-completed then set flush against a mirror so that you see the whole vessel) were made by French prisoners of war during the
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Museum of the Memorial of the Refugees of 1922
Honours Anatolia’s lost Greek culture, abruptly ended after 2000 years by the Greek-Turkish population exchanges of 1923. By 1922 most ethnic Greeks had fled the Anatolia region of Asia Minor, a fact made official in 1923 at the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turki
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Hellenic Cosmos
To put ruins and museums into perspective, take a virtual-reality trip to Ancient Greece at the futuristic Foundation for the Hellenic World, about 2km southwest of the city centre. The Tholos virtual-reality theatre takes you on an interactive tour of the Ancient Agora or allows y
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Museum of Cretan Ethnology
This interesting museum in the village of Vori, 4km east of Tymbaki, provides fascinating insights into traditional Cretan culture. The English-labelled exhibits are organised around themes such as rural life, food production, war, customs, architecture, music and food production.
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Larissa Castle
Looming over Argos, Larissa Castle is a crumbling conglomeration of purple-flower-studded towers, bastions and wall sections – contributed by Roman, Frankish, Venetian and Ottoman Turk conquerors – that stands on the foundations of the city’s principal ancient citadel. Much of the
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Old Bridge
This graceful stone bridge loops 20m high over the glassy green Arahthos River. A bridge has spanned this spot since Roman times; the version you see today is thought to be Ottoman. Folk ballads wail of a woman walled into its foundations, to banish a curse that saw the bridge crum
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Church of Agia Sofia
Candlelight twinkling from gold chandeliers pierces the gloom in this functioning 8th-century church, modelled on its İstanbul namesake. The dome has a striking mosaic of the Ascension of Christ. Built over a previous 3rd-century church, its notable for the cross-basilica style ass
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Ancient Ialysos
Constructed in the 3rd century BC, atop what’s now Filerimos Hill, 10km southwest of Rhodes Town, the Doric city of Ialysos was repeatedly conquered thereafter. The resultant hotchpotch of Doric, Byzantine and medieval remains is now barely intelligible to casual visitors. Stairs f
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Perama Cave
Stalactite-rich Perama Cave, 4km from Ioannina, is among Greece’s largest and most impressive. Discovered by accident in 1940 by residents fleeing bomb attacks, 1100m of its fairy-tale passageways can be explored on hourly guided tours (45 minutes, in Greek and English). Knowledgea
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Museum of Natural History
Apiranthos is an atmospheric mountain village of unadorned stone houses, marble-paved streets and alleyways that scramble up the slopes of Mt Fanari. Its inhabitants are descendants of refugees who fled Crete to escape Turkish repression; they retain a strong individuality and a ri
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Moni Megalou Meteorou
The best known of the Meteora monasteries, Moni Megalou Meteorou is an imposing form built on the highest rock in the valley, 613m above sea level. Founded by St Athanasios in the 14th century, it became the richest and most powerful monastery thanks to the Serbian emperor Symeon U
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Sanctuary of Artemis
This site, originally a neolithic settlement, came to be revered by worshippers of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt and protector of women in childbirth and newborns. The current remains of the temple date from approximately 420 BC, though the remains of other structures predate th
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Arolithos
Built in the mid-1980s as a way to preserve and showcase Cretan life, Arolithos (a-ro -li-thos), 11km southwest of Iraklio, is a reasonably authentic-looking recreation of a traditional Cretan village. It’s a cluster of buildings containing workshops, a kafeneio and stores selling
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