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Greece has 19 properties in Greece inscribed on the World Heritage List, 17 of which are cultural sites and two ( Meteora and Mount Athos) are mixed, listed for both their natural and cultural significance. The first site added to the list was the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, in 1986. The next two sites listed were the Archeological ...
The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance ...
Church of Panagia Chalkeon. Church of Prophet Elijah (Thessaloniki) Church of Saint Catherine, Thessaloniki. Church of Saint Nicholas Orphanos. Church of Saint Panteleimon (Thessaloniki) Church of the Acheiropoietos. Church of the Holy Apostles (Thessaloniki) Church of the Saviour, Thessaloniki. Corfu (city)
Restored North Entrance with charging bull fresco of the Palace of Knossos (), with some Minoan colourful columns. The first great ancient Greek civilization were the Minoans, a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on Crete and other Aegean Islands, that flourished from c. 3000 BC to c. 1450 BC and, after a late period of decline, finally ended around 1100 BC during the early Greek Dark Ages.
Another site, retaining its Pre-Greek name Mount Cynthus, [1] is crowned with a sanctuary of Zeus. In 1990, UNESCO added Delos to the World Heritage List , citing its exceptional archaeological site which "conveys the image of a great cosmopolitan Mediterranean port", its influence on the development of Greek architecture, and its sacred ...
Meteora by night. The Meteora ( / ˌmɛtiˈɔːrə /; [ 1] Greek: Μετέωρα, pronounced [meˈteora]) is a rock formation in the regional unit of Trikala, in Thessaly, in northwestern Greece, hosting one of the largest and most precipitously built complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries, second in importance only to Mount Athos. [ 2]
The location of the Russian Black Sea naval fleet's automobile depot was one of the obstacles to the inclusion of the reserve on UNESCO's list of world heritage sites. [10] In 2017, archaeologists discovered on the outskirts of Sevastopol, fragments of an ancient Greek altar with figures of gods. [11] [12]
Sites that were in use in ancient Greek times from ca. 750 BC to 146 BC and consists of Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic sites in Greece. Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
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