The Mysterious Dragon Houses of Euvoia Southern Evia hosts one of the most intriguing mysteries of archaeology: the famous Dragon Houses, named due to the massive scale of their construction. These remarkable structures, a total of 25, with their unique wall construction and unknown, even today, use by their creators, are scattered across the entire…
Livadia A Walk Through the City At the lagoon, one of the most significant wetlands in the Ionian, protected by the Ramsar Convention as a wetland of international importance. The area also houses an ancient fish farm (ivari). At the Fortress of Agia Mavra, at the entrance of the city, built by the Sicilian Giovanni…
The Thermopylae are a coastal pass in Greece. The area is named after nearby hot springs and the narrow and difficult passages through which one could approach the region, the gates, which were the Eastern, Middle, and Western gates. There were major festivals and sanctuaries in ancient Greece. At the Thermopylae, there was a sanctuary…
Journey through the History of Delphi At the foot of Mount Parnassus, in the striking natural landscape formed between two towering rocks, the Phocian cliffs, lies the Panhellenic sanctuary of Delphi and the most famous oracle of ancient Greece. Delphi was considered the omphalos (navel) of the Earth, where, according to mythology, two eagles sent…
Monastery of Hosios Loukas The Monastery of Hosios Loukas, the Hagia Sophia of Roumeli, is located in the municipality of Stiri, in the municipal unit of Distomo, in the municipality of Distomo-Dragonas-Antrikeras, in the regional unit of Boeotia, Central Greece. It is situated at an altitude of 430 meters on Mount Stiri. It is one…
Chalcis Just 80 km from Athens, the city of the sacred spring of Arethusa serves as the gateway to the entire island of Euboea. Its strategic geographic position has made it a crossroads of ideas and cultures since ancient times, a stronghold for conquerors of every era. Today, the cosmopolitan Chalcis – the administrative and…