Greece

Greece seduces you as few other places can. The warmth of its people, the almost ethereal light that caresses myriad islands, millennia-old ruins, the starkness of whitewashed houses against an azure sea, the soft greens of olive groves and vineyards…they all come together to make Greece a country unique in Europe. This is the land of Homer, Socrates and Plato, but Alexander the Great, the Turks, Romans, Slavs, Venetians, and many more have also had an impact on this magical land, influencing and molding the present-day Greek persona. To get a real sense of time and history, one needs only to stand on a hillside above Athens and look across the modern city at the Parthenon, built almost 500 years before the birth of Christ.