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Category: Gastronomic & Historic Sites
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The Best Delphi Food Tours
Delphi, lying in the foothills of Mount Parnassus, was the most famous oracle of ancient Greece and, for many centuries, was its spiritual and religious center.
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Thermopylae food tours
The legendary battle between the Persians and the Greeks, under the leadership of the Spartan King Leonidas, took place at Thermopylae in 480 BCE.
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The Hossios Loukas’ (Loyal Luke) Monastery food tours
The monastery is among the most important monuments of Middle Byzantine art and architecture and is on the list of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites.
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Daphne Monastery food tours
The Daphne monastery is protected by an impressive wall, fortified by towers and ramparts, with two entry gates. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1990. Daphne Monastery was likely built around 1080 CE.
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The Evros River food tours
The Evros River is a natural border between Greece and Turkey. Its estuary in the Thracian Gulf forms the Evros Delta, one of Europe’s most important natural habitats.
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Xanthi food tours
Xanthi, along with the rest of Thrace, was taken over by the Ottomans in 1375. The habitation of the region by Muslims and the islamization of the mountain villages began at the end of the 14th century.
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Nestos River food tours
The Nestos river rises in the Rila Mountains (Bulgaria) and flows into the Aegean Sea near the island of Thasos. It plunges down towering canyons toward the Aegean Sea through mostly metamorphic formations.
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The Philippi food tours
The Philippi is a settlement close to Kavala. The town of Philippi is the most important archeological site in eastern Macedonia. Its first settlers were from Thasos, who in 360 BCE established the colony of Krinidon.
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The Rio-Antirio Bridge food tours
The Rio–Antirrio Bridge, officially the Charilaos Trikoupis Bridge, is one of the world’s longest multi-span cable-stayed bridges and longest of the fully suspended type.
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Ikaria food tours
Ikaria is famed for its strong red wine whose beneficial properties are known from mythology. Its name, Pramnios wine, is connected to the worship of the god Dionysus. According to mythology, Dionysus, in fact, was born in Ikaria in a cave near Drakano.