Greece is famous worldwide as the cradle of human civilization. All visitors may easily visit museums, archaeological sites, monuments, cultural centers throughout the country, all year round.

Visiting Greek museums and archeological collections throughout the country you can admire flourishing Greek art during a four-thousand-years history. Neo - lithic, classical, Hellenistic, Byzantine or post-Byzantine, as well as modern pieces of art, are exhibited in more than 240 state or state-controlled museums, including galleries, historical or folk-lore museums
 

The country's onshore ecosystems are of extreme importance. The coastline's length is 15,000 km in total (of which about half is the coastline of islands) where there are sandy beaches, sandy strands, dunes, craggy coasts, onshore wetlands (lagoons, morasses, periodically flooded areas, salty fields, shallow brackish waters etc.)

An essential element of the Greek tourism product peculiarity is the island phenomenon. A total of 227 inhabited islands (of which 164 are washed by the Aegean Sea) are part of the Greek territory. Still, only 78 islands have more than 100 inhabitants (1991 Greek National Statistical Service Census). 59.9% of the whole country's hotel units, 62.2% of the available rooms and 62.2% of the hotel beds is concentrated on the Greek islands.

Because of the tremendous variety in the character of the country itself (hundreds of islands, thousands of kilometers of coasts, many mountains in the mainland and the bigger islands, a rich flora and fauna, more than a hundred spas with mineral waters of many healing qualities, an intense cultural as well as social life), the activities offered to tourists are also of an incredible variety: in the following pages learn about going out and gastronomy, yachting, sailing and cruises in the greek waters, other water sports, tours, golfing and other sports, extreme sports, trekking, mountaineering and skiing, ecotourism, religious tourism, health and fitness tourism, conferences and meetings.
 

The flora of all the regions of our country is the richest in Europe, following the Iberian peninsula's, with more than 6.000 species and subspecies, of which 700-750 are indigenous, that is they can be found only within the boundaries of the greek territory. Greece is the richest country in Europe in indigenous vegetation.
 
Equally rich is the variety of fauna species living, nesting, propagating or migrating in the greek regions, and particularly 116 mammal species, 422 fowling species and sizable fish fauna (of the 579 fish species of the Mediterranean Sea, the 447 have been registered in the greek seas).
 

                Athens

The Centre of All the Centres in the World ... Athens is neither the beginning nor the end. Athens is everywhere. Everything is concentrated within the city. Is the city of Olympic Idea, city of artists, cultural channel, scientific centre & more .. Athens is The City. But even more its is the pole .. of attraction for everyone.