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To see what is special about us Our next tours:
Mani and More!
Bronze Age Crete & Santorini
We vary the tours each year. Mainly Peloponnese 2011
North
Eastern Greece
North
West Greece click on place names which are underlined for more information
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photograph of a Corfiot taken by this photo is the only surviving evidence of how these pipes were smoked, it is now on exhibition in Corfu for a collection of beautiful sketches of Corfu by Theresa Nicholas and books by John Waller see www.yiannisbooks.com |
Relive the legends of Homer and the tragedies of Sophokles; walk in the footsteps of Pausanias and wonder at the glory of the works of Praxiteles and Phidias; enjoy the breathtaking scenery as we travel through olive clad mountains and fertile plains where you half expect to glimpse Herakles on one of his labours. Our unique tours offer a chance to see all the major archaeological sites of ancient & classical Greece as well as taking you off the beaten track to less visited but fascinating places. In just a week we journey through over 3,000 years of Greek history, from Minoan to Byzantine, as well as enjoying the vibrancy of modern Greece. We do two tours a year, one in May and one in September.
Only 2 places
remaining! September 26th to
October 4th
2015:
Mani & More! Byzantine Churches
& Castles of the Southern
Peloponnese.
This tour visits the little
know region of southernmost Greece including Mani, a rugged, barren area
dotted with hundreds of small churches, mostly from the Byzantine period
and many containing fine frescoes. The coastline is stunningly
beautiful. We will be based in the two pretty ports of
Yíthion
and
Pylos. Our itinerary includes
Mistras
and Yeraki, two
abandoned medieval towns, each topped with a medieval castle, beneath
which are a number of Byzantine churches;
Monemavasiá
another medieval town, full of churches, set on a rock jutting out to
sea; we spend a day in the Deep Mani going, via Areopolis
and Vathia, down to the entrance to Hades at Cape Tenairon.
We also visit the medieval town at Kardymili and the castle, on a
beach, at Methoni. The cost for 8 nights including flights from Heathrow to Athens is: £885 per person sharing a twin or double room, £1,010 for a single room. Prices without flights: £655 per person sharing a twin or double; £780 for a single room. Because many of the churches we visit are small we will restrict the group to 22.Bronze Age Crete & Santorini provisionally 14th to 22nd May 2016 We are now looking forward to making another visit to Crete and Santorini. We are sure you will be enthralled by the history, archaeology, art, scenery & people of these Aegean islands. The history of Crete & Santorini spans over 5,000 years; our tour will concentrate on the Bronze Age, or Minoan period. Santorini is a fabulously beautiful island with its dramatic caldera, white houses and black beaches. It is also the site of the ‘Aegean Pompeii’, the remarkably well preserved Bronze Age town of Akrotiri, only recently reopened to the public. Crete, the largest island in the Mediterranean, is rich in history and beautiful scenery. We fly via Athens to Santorini where we stay for 2 nights, then take the hydrofoil to Crete, where we stay 3 nights in Iraklion and 3 nights in Ayios Nikaloas. Click here for more details. Price and confirmation of dates coming soon.
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 Part of the Parthenon frieze, now magnificently displayed in the new Akropolis Museum |
Further reading:- web sites of interest
Society for the Revival of the Nemean Games
| Temple of Apollo at Delphi |
http://www.ancient-greece.org/architecture/delphi-temple-of-apollo.html |
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| Delphi museum |
http://www.ancient-greece.org/architecture/delphi-temple-of-apollo.html |
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| Slide show of Delphi pictures |
http://www.ancient-greece.org/architecture/delphi-temple-of-apollo.html |
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| Museum of the Stoa of Attalos at Athens |
http://www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21101m/e211am02.html |
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| the Museum at Olympia |
http://www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21107m/e211gm04.html |
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| slide show of the temple at Sounion, Thassos and other places |
http://www.duncanjdsmith.com/Galleryall/Greece/pages/SounionTemplePoseidon.htm |
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| more info and photos about Brauron |
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/siteindex?lookup=Brauron |
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