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Kastellorizo or Castellorizo ( US: / ˌkɑːstəˈlɔːrɪzoʊ /; [3] Greek: Καστελλόριζο, romanized : Kastellórizo ), officially Megisti ( Μεγίστη Megísti ), is a Greek island and municipality of the Dodecanese in the Eastern Mediterranean. [4] [5] It lies roughly 2 kilometres (1 mile) off the south coast of Turkey, about ...
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The next two sites listed were the Archeological site of Delphi and the Acropolis of Athens, in the following year. Five sites were added in 1988, two in 1989 and 1990 each, one in 1992, one in 1996, two in 1999, and one in 2007. The most recent site added was the Zagori Cultural Landscape, in 2023. There are no transnational sites in Greece.
Milos is the southwestern-most island in the Cyclades group. The Venus de Milo (now in the Louvre ), the Poseidon of Melos (now in the NAMA) and the Asclepius of Milos (now in the British Museum) were all found on the island, [2] as was an archaic Apollo now in Athens. Milos is a popular tourist destination during the summer.
The wall paintings of ancient Thera are famous frescoes discovered by Spyridon Marinatos at the excavations of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini (or Thera). They are regarded as part of Minoan art, although the culture of Thera was somewhat different from that of Crete, and the political relationship between the two islands at the time ...
The ancient Cycladic culture flourished in the islands of the Aegean Sea from c. 3300 to 1100 BCE. [1] Along with the Minoan civilization and Mycenaean Greece, the Cycladic people are counted among the three major Aegean cultures. Cycladic art therefore comprises one of the three main branches of Aegean art .
Skyros (Greek: Σκύρος, Modern Greek: [ˈs̠ci.ro̞s̠]), in some historical contexts Latinized Scyros (Ancient Greek: Σκῦρος, Attic Greek pronunciation:), is an island in Greece. It is the southernmost island of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Around the 2nd millennium BC, the island was known as The Island of the ...
Islands of Greece by size A NASA image of Crete A NASA image of Rhodes Ithaca is to the upper right of the larger Kefalonia island in this picture. The small island in the top-right corner is the uninhabited Atokos island. The following are the 50 largest Greek islands listed by surface area.