Overlooking the Pleistos Valley on Mount Parnassus in Greece lie the ruins of Delphi, the most famous […]

The Battle of Thermopylae  was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place in August or September 480 BC, at the narrow coastal pass of Thermopylae ("The Hot Gates").

The twelve Olympians were a race of deities, primarily consisting of a third and fourth generation of immortal beings, worshipped as the principal gods of the Greek pantheon.

As one of the most powerful cities of Ancient Greece, Athens has many fascinating myths and stories. Athens, the glorious city of Classical Greece was named after the Goddess Athena. But what is the myth behind this name givng?

The famous geodetic triangulation of ancient Greece is another wonderful mystery of the ancient Greeks, as the […]

A true old story (By the travel designer)

I first visited Crete in the mid-1970s, starting […]