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Phaistos Disk. The messenger of the forgotten world
I saw the place where it was found. On the outskirts of the palace, right next to the northern, outer wall, in a completely inconspicuous place, neither now, nor probably 3,700 years ago. Yet it has become one of the most enigmatic objects ever found…
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Zvara. About music, dance, Zagori Races and cosmic religion of Greece
In the heart of the Pindos Mountains, in the small village of Tsepelovo, every year in July, Zagori Mountain Running competitions are organized. There are four distances to choose from, but the start of each of them is somewhat similar: a crowd of runners…
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Glistrokoumaria - Greek Strawberry Tree
For the first time I saw it on the road from Litochoro to the Stavros Refuge: Glistrokoumaria – Greek Strawberry Tree. Branches fancifully twisted, color difficult to determine, and above all this skin (because it is not bark) – smooth as velvet, covered as if with a soft fluff, once a little greener, more often turning into pink, red and burgundy.
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Vergina Experience - The Royal Tombs in darkness
At the beginning you have to choose a place on the map: Metsovo, Tempi Valley or Vergina. It cannot be too close, the journey must wean you from everyday life, prepare you for what is new and unexpected.
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Seal Of Pylos.
Forgotten Masterpiece
It is May 2015. The Archaeological site of Nestor’s Palace in the southwestern Peloponnese, 15 km from the modern town of Pylos on the shores of the Gulf of Navarino. The rocky island of Sfakteria and several smaller ones, the site of naval battles one from the Peloponnesian War in the 5th century BC…
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Chariots of Fire Vangelis' Music And a Joy of Running
In 1982, the Academy Award for Best Original Music went to Vangelis Papathanassiou – a famous Greek composer, one of the greatest creators of film music in history – for the soundtrack to the film Chariots of Fire directed by Hugh Hudson. Everyone knows the title song from this film…
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The Path of Your Dreams
In Crete of my dreams I also had my ideal path. I didn’t know where exactly it was, I didn’t know what it looked like, I didn’t even know if it really existed, but I was deeply convinced that if it existed, it was somewhere in Crete.
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Eternal life of cars on Corfu
An integral part of the Corfu landscape are abandoned cars. Although “abandoned” is actually not the best word. It suggests that someone carelessly left the car in a random place – and this is certainly not the point. On Corfu, old cars are ubiquitous, but they do not stand at random places.
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Blade Runner on Peloponnese
That day I wanted to cross the mountains. Not high. Separating the central part of the Peloponnese from the eastern coast. It was in the second week of my journey around the great, mulberry-leaf shaped, Greek peninsula.
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