History - Tradition

First Christmas tree in Greece and the custom of Eiressioni

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The first Christmas tree in Greece was King’s George fir, in 1834. It was decorated out of his house in Nafplio. It was a very strange spectacle for ...

The battle of Crete

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Until April 1941, Germans had easily conquered Greece, except for the Island of Crete. Germans had great military power –soldiers and equipment-, so ...

The miracle of Meteora

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Tall rocks of unearthly shape stand high in an unprecedented complex of stony mass, unique not only in Greece but all over the world. Monasteries ...
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