FLEDGE TRAVEL · GREECE GUIDE
Greece: the ancient world, in detail
Thirteen regions, ten city and island guides, ancient sites, beaches, monasteries and moussaka. Researched street by street.
Sunset over the caldera from Oia, Santorini. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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The pages most visitors miss: small cities, regional dishes, festivals and obsessions from the full guide.
Dolmades
Dolmades (dolmadakia) are vine leaves rolled around rice: the classic Greek meze.
Loukoumades
Loukoumades are the Greek honey puffs: spoonfuls of yeasted dough dropped into hot oil, fried golden, then drenched in honey and scattered with cinnamon and crushed walnuts.
Nafplio
Nafplio was the first capital of modern Greece (1828-1833): a Venetian and neoclassical town on the Argolic Gulf, under the great Palamidi fortress.
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki is Greece's second city: 2,300 years old, founded in 315 BC and named for Alexander the Great's sister.
Patras Carnival
The Patras Carnival (Patrino Karnavali) is the largest carnival in Greece and one of the largest in Europe, running for more than 180 years.
Monasteries
Orthodox monasticism shaped Greece's mountains: the hanging monasteries of Meteora, the autonomous republic of Mount Athos (men only, by permit), and the great Byzantine foundations like Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni.
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The Parthenon crowning the ancient citadel.
The drowned caldera and the blue domes of Oia.
Monasteries on rock pillars, hundreds of metres up.
The Minoan palace of King Minos.
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Entry documents, when to go, what to pack
Transportation
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Accommodation
Cave suites, domatia and where to book ahead
Itinerary Ideas
Classical Greece in 7 days, island-hopping in 10
Etiquette
Churches, tavernas, tipping and quiet hours
Money
The euro, cards, and cash on the small islands
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