Ancient Olympia is one of the most emotionally resonant ancient sites in the world — not because of its architectural spectacle (the Temple of Zeus has fallen to earthquakes, the Stadium is largely unexcavated earth banks) but because of what happened here for over a thousand years. From 776 BC to 393 AD, every four […]
Nafplio is the most beautiful town in mainland Greece — and the secret that Athenians have kept from international travelers for too long. Greece’s first capital after independence from the Ottomans in 1823, Nafplio combines a Venetian harbor of extraordinary charm, neoclassical mansions in warm amber stone, cobblestone streets lined with bougainvillea, the Palamidi fortress
Delphi was, for nearly a thousand years, the center of the ancient world. The Greeks believed it was the omphalos — the navel of the earth, the point where the two eagles released by Zeus met after circling the globe in opposite directions. The Oracle of Delphi, the Pythia, spoke prophecies here that shaped the
