When traveling in a country as old as Greece, ancient ruins can quickly go from magnificent to mind-numbing. Great — yet another nameless hill with more stony remnants of people from centuries past.
Sunlight floods the hillsides dotted with dark green cypress and olive groves. Here are the ruins, the stepping stones of a sanctuary that has existed since Mycenaean times. The Tholos, originally ...
In 356BC, the site of the Delphic oracle, hidden in the folds of Mount Parnassus, between the Corycian cave and the Castalian spring, was invaded by the army of neighbouring Phocis and placed under ...
THE BEAUTY OF travel has always been its unpredictability but, in the Covid era, unpredictable has taken on new meaning. In November 2021, finding myself able to travel again and desperate to escape ...
Travel Weekly’s Kate Rice is on vacation in Greece with her family. Her third dispatch follows. Click to read Kate’s first and second dispatches. On our trip to Delphi, Gavriela found a soul mate in ...
With the abundance of ancient history in Athens, it may be tempting to stick to the famous Greek city. But if you're only ...