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Category: Gastronomic & Historic Sites
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Athens food tours
The capital of Greece, is among the oldest cities in the world. Also preserved in Athens are monuments of Rome and Byzantium, the medieval Daphne Monastery which, along with the Acropolis, have been designed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, along with a small number of Ottoman monuments.
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Marathon food tours
Marathon is found on the northeast coast of Attica and looks out to the Aegean Sea. It is renowned for the battle fought there in 490 BCE during the first invasion of Greece by Persia, the superpower of the day. In the battle, the Athenians, with their Plataean allies decimated the Persian army.
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Spetses food tours
Cosmopolitan Spetses is close to the eastern shore of the Peloponnese. Most of the island is covered with pine trees and its beaches are beautiful. The port and the town are highly interesting architecturally, with neoclassical houses and gravel courtyards.
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Lavrion Food Tours
Lavrio is a small town and a port in the southeastern part of Attica. It has been known since classical antiquity for silver mining, which was one of the main income sources of Athens used to finance the Athenian fleet, which made possible the victory in the naval battle of Salamis that followed the battle…
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Mycenae Food tours
Mycenean civilization flourished in the Peloponnese during the Bronze Age, and more specifically from 1600 to 1100 BCE. Its center was the city of Mycenae, which was suddenly destroyed in 1100 BCE.
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The Best Olympia food tours
Olympia was the most glorious holy site of Greece. Beginning in 776 BCE, the Olympic Games were held there every four years.
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Nemea wine tours
The wider region of Nemea is the largest viniculture zone of Greece. Produced here are the well-known wines with a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO). The region has been known for its wines from ancient times.
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The Corinth Canal Food Tours
The Isthmus of Corinth was a narrow strip of land that joined Central Greece to the Peloponnese, while the Corinth Canal cutting through it connects the Saronic and the Corinthian gulfs.
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The Best Parnassus Food Tours
Mount Parnassus is one of the loftiest mountains of Greece (2,457m / 8,061 ft) and has been declared a national park as part of the Pindus mountain range.
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The Best Messolonghi Food Tours
Messolonghi, the Holy City as it has been called, is identified as no other Greek city with the liberation struggle of 1821. Its residents resisted the attacks of the Ottoman Empire in 1822 and in 1823 without surrendering.