Greece Highlights
Athens
The Acropolis still has a presence that makes the grimy concrete of modern Athens fade into insignificance.
Mycenae
Ancient Mycenae is home for two burial chambers of unsurpassed ingenuity: the Treasury of Atreus and the Tomb of Clytemnestra.
Mystras
A romantically ruined walled town, clinging to a conical crag and topped by a castle.
Olympia
The sanctuary here was in use for two millennia as a religious and athletic centre. The stadium has a 192-metre running course and surviving vaulted entrance.
Corfu
Between Corfu Town (Kérkyra Town) and Kanóni lie beautiful Italianate buildings with narrow streets, small squares, churches, leather shops, restaurants and ice-cream stands.
Metéora
Some of the most extraordinary monasteries in the world cling to these massive rocks, whose name derives from the verb meteorízo, to suspend in the air.
Thessaloniki
A baker's dozen of Byzantine churches survive in Thessaloníki, more than in any other Greek town.
Lesvos
With its thick southern forests and idyllic orchards, Lésvos was a preferred Roman holiday spot and the Byzantines considered it a humane exile for deposed nobility.
Rhodes
The best-known of the Dodecanese islands, Rhodes (Ródhos) is endowed with a balmy climate and a wealth of monuments.
Crete
Crete, much more than other Greek islands, is a place both for sightseeing and for being on the beach. Minoan ruins are the major magnets, but there are also Greek, Roman and Venetian remains, and a score of museums.
Santorini
Entering the bay of Santoríni on a boat is one of Greece's great experiences. Broken pieces of a volcano's rim - Santoríni and its attendant islets - form a multicoloured circle around a seemingly bottomless lagoon. The Atlantis legend, so it is thought, begins here.
Mykonos
Mykonos has made itself glamorous. It has turned its rocky, treeless ruggedness into a tourist-pleasing package that works.
Delos
Minuscule Delos, southwest of Mykonos, is heaven for archaeologists. Extensive Greco-Roman ruins occupying much of the island's 4 sq km make Delos the equal of Delphi and Olympia.