Insight Guides - Insight Guides Greece (Travel Guide eBook)

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This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Greece, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editors Choice categories of activities and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Greece. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Greece are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

Youll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Greece. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

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Greeces Top 10 Attractions

Top Attraction 1

The Parthenon, Athens. Although still partly covered in scaffolding this treasure of the Classical city never fails to impress. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 2

Metora, Thessaly. Half-a-dozen-plus frescoed monasteries and convents perch bizarrely on sheer rock pinnacles in the Pndos foothills. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 3

Krkyra Old Town, Corfu. Venetian flair, domesticity and town planning at the far end of the Adriatic, bracketed by two imposing castles with eye-popping views. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 4

Hani Venetian quarter. Touristy and plenty of touts, yet exquisite and unbeatable for strolling, popping into small museums in old buildings or just having a drink. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 5

Zagorohria. Two score or so of handsome, stone-built villages in the shadow of lofty Mount Gamla, with top-notch lodging and all adventure sports to hand in the canyons nearby. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 6

Delphi Sanctuary. With its striking setting at the base of Mount Parnasss, the ancients reckoned this oracle the centre of the world. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 7

Mystrs. At the base of Mount Tagettos, the capital of the Morea Despotate with frescoed palaces and monasteries saw out the Byzantine twilight until 1460. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 8

dra port town. No cars, meticulously preserved architecture, cool marble flagstones under foot and compulsive people-watching make this a winner. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 9

Mt Plio (Pelion). The surprise of mainland Greece, with dense forests, cobbled hiking paths, tottering old villages and Caribbean-quality beaches all in one package. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 10

Santorni caldera view. Commercialised to within an inch of its life but still a must-see, especially at sunset or sunrise from a bar terrace in Firostefni, Fir or a. For more information, .

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Editors Choice

The improbably-perched Hozovitissa monastery, Amorgs.

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Best Monasteries

sios Louks monastery. Some of the best 11th-century mosaics on view in Greece. For more information, .

Na Mon monastery. And the rest of the best 11th-century mosaics are here, on the distant island of Hos. For more information, .