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What you can buy – gold and silver jewellery, folk art, textiles, pottery, leather, enamelware, onyx items and rugs. There are plenty of temptations for
shopaholics, from wonder ful handicrafts and exquisite shoes and jewellery, to cheap ancient motif souvenirs and tacky Acropolis lamps.
Where you can buy – shopping centers in cities, flea markets and souvenir shops in resorts. The Athenia market strip is a must.
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Taverns offering Greek food and music, bars, restaurants and discothèques throughout the country and islands; at Piraeus and other ports, many
seafood and fish restaurants; major cities offer cultural entertainment, including theatre, museums and galleries.Athens has enough venues to satisfy
most entertainment needs although most clubs don’t crank up until after midnight. On offer are Greek disco, tsifteteli (dance tunes), bouzouki (crooner
joints), laika (popular music), rebetika (blues) and eclectic entekna (‘artistic’ music).
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The Greek Carnival season runs the three weeks before the beginning of Lent; festivities in Athens involve eating, drinking and all-around
merrymaking. Easter is the most significant festival in the Greek Orthodox calendar. The candlelit procession climbing Lykavittos Hill to the Chapel
of Agios Georgos is a truly impressive sight. Greek folk dances are per formed from mid-May to September. The city’s biggest event is the Hellenic
Festival, from mid-June to the end of September. Ancient Greek drama is per formed at the Theatre of Herodes Atticusa superb setting backed by
the floodlit Acropolis. Plays run at other venues as well, and there are various classical music concerts and dance per formances during the festivities.
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Steeped in Homeric history and culture, scented by wild fennel and basil, Crete welcomes and overwhelms. Knossos palace, in a beautiful site just
southeast of Iraklio, is the most magnificent, intricate and evocative of Crete’s Minoan sites. Santorini is regarded by many as the most spectacular
of the Greek islands. The Acropolis stands sentinel over Athens. The colossal Temple of Olympian Zeus is the largest in Greece and it took more than
700 years to complete. Also worth seeing is The Acropolis of Rhodes with its second century stadium and amphitheatre.
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Take your pick of water sports and beach activites on the islands; sailing, wind sur fing, snorkelling, scuba diving, para-sailing, jet skiing, boating,
cruising and fishing. Spa and beauty treatments are available in deluxe resorts for those wanting a touch of idulgance. Try trekking and hiking on the
islands; see Greece up close and at your own speed.
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Water front cafes in Mykonos, as well as many discotheques, bars and nightclubs; Crete- taverns here are lively with bouzouki music, seafood,
specially squid, is excellent and discothèques and bars abound throughout the island; Rhodes, with fine international cuisine as well as excellent
Greek food, Son et Lumiere in the palace of Grand Masters in the Old Town.
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