Greece

by belindamunday

14 Places

The Oracle of Delphi

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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Arcadia, Greece

St. Theodora's Chapel

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

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Laconia, Greece

Vatheia

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

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Mesopotamos, Greece

Necromanteion of Ephyra

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

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Penteli, Greece

Davelis Cave on Pendeli Mountain

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

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Syntagma Square Metro Station

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Little Metropolis Church

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

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Kalabaka, Greece

Meteora

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

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Thessaloniki, Greece

Abandoned Bogomils Graveyard

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

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Thessaloniki, Greece

Yeni Camii

This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.

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The Athenian Agora

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

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Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

The Gennadius Library

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

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Antikythera Mechanism

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

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