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Greece is a country in Southeast Europe. Its capital is Athens and its official language is Greek.
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Chania (Χανιά) is a city at the western end of Crete. Greece's national tourism site describes its old town, with Venetian mansions, old hammams and minarets, its old harbour, and the historic Halepa quarter to the east of the city, where it says the Archaeological Museum of Chania is located.
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Corfu Town (Kerkyra) is the town on the island of Corfu that is the seat of the Municipality of Central Corfu and Diapontia Islands; the Ministry of Culture says its Old Town, two fortresses and perimeter fortifications were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2007. XTOUR maps the Old and New Fortresses and the Church of Saint Spyridon in the town, and the Achilleion at Gastouri as a place reached from it.
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Delphi is a village in Phocis, Central Greece, close to the archaeological site of Delphi, which the Ephorate of Antiquities of Phocis places 400 m from the present-day village. Visit Greece says the village was moved to its present position in 1893, when the land of the original hamlet was expropriated for the archaeological site.
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Heraklion (Ηράκλειο) is a city in the centre of the northern coast of Crete, which the Municipality of Heraklion describes as the capital of the region and the economic centre of the island. The municipality's pages list the Archaeological Museum among the city's museums and place Knossos, the centre of Minoan civilisation, south of the city.
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Ioannina is a city in Epirus beside Lake Pamvotida, the seat of the Municipality of Ioannina and of the Epirus Region, according to the municipality. XTOUR maps the castle and the Archaeological Museum in the city, and treats Dodona and the Cave of Perama, which lie outside the city, as places for which Ioannina is a base.
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Kalambaka is a town in Thessaly and the seat of the Municipality of Meteora, whose own pages name the Meteora rocks, a UNESCO World Heritage site, as the town's main sight. XTOUR lists the six Meteora monasteries, which stand on the Meteora rocks in the Municipality of Meteora, as places reached from Kalambaka rather than places in the town.
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Mykonos is an island in the heart of the Cyclades, Greece. The archaeological site of Delos, on the nearby island of Delos in the same municipality, is mapped as a separate place, not as part of Mykonos.
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Nafplio is a town at the head of the Argolic Gulf in the Peloponnese which, Visit Greece says, was the first capital of the modern Greek state from 1827 to 1834. The same page places the Palamidi castle at the town's highest point and the Bourtzi fortress on the islet of Agioi Theodoroi just off its coast; Mycenae, Tiryns and Epidaurus are sites outside the town.
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Rhodes is an island in the Dodecanese, Greece, whose Medieval Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, according to Greece's national tourism organisation. XTOUR maps the Palace of the Grand Master and the Archaeological Museum in the medieval town of Rhodes, and the Acropolis of Lindos on the island's southeastern side.
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Santorini, known in antiquity as Thera, is an island at the southern end of the Cyclades in Greece; Greece's national tourism organisation also uses the name for the island group of Thera, Thirasia, Aspronisi, Palea Kameni and Nea Kameni, and this destination is the island of Thera itself. XTOUR maps the Bronze Age town at Akrotiri, Ancient Thera, the Museum of Prehistoric Thera in Fira and the medieval castles of Skaros and Oia on the island.
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Thessaloniki is a city in Macedonia, Greece, on the Thermaic Gulf; the Greek National Tourism Organisation describes it as inhabited since prehistoric times, with archaeological sites, Byzantine churches and Ottoman monuments, and the White Tower on its waterfront. XTOUR maps the Roman and Byzantine monuments, churches and museums in the city itself, and keeps places elsewhere in Central Macedonia, such as Pella and Aigai at Vergina, apart from it.
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Thessaloniki's Roman and Byzantine monuments are not one site: some are ticketed state monuments, some are museums, one is an arch on a city street, and two of the great churches are working Orthodox churches with their own websites. This guide sorts them by kind of visit, explains what the 1988 UNESCO listing covers, records where official pages disagree, and says what XTOUR does not know.
Delphi is one archaeological site holding two sanctuaries, Apollo's and Athena Pronaia's, on either side of the modern road, with the Archaeological Museum in its own building beside them and the present-day village of Delphi as the place to stay. This guide sets out how the three relate, what the Ministry of Culture and Hellenic Heritage say about the shared ticket and the parts of the site listed as closed, where their pages disagree, and what XTOUR does not know.
Six of the Meteora monasteries are working communities that admit visitors, each on its own schedule and with its own weekly closing day. This guide sets out what each one is, who publishes the visiting rules, where the official pages disagree, and what XTOUR does not know.
Whether a Greek state archaeological site or museum is open on a given day depends on its seasonal schedule, a set of fixed holiday closures and day-of notices for weather, heat, fire risk, works and events. This article explains who publishes each, shows where the official pages disagree, and draws on Hellenic Heritage's own notices from 2026; XTOUR publishes no opening hours.
The Acropolis is entered on its own timed ticket, and the Acropolis Museum is a separate ticket from a separate institution. This guide explains who issues site tickets, what the official terms say about time slots and changes, where the Acropolis Museum's own link points, and what is still unclear about a combined ticket for the other ancient sites in Athens.
The Acropolis is the rock and its monuments; the Acropolis Museum is a separate institution that holds what has been found there. This guide sets out what each one is, why several original sculptures are in the museum rather than on the hill, and how their tickets relate.
Aigai, the first capital of the Macedonian kingdom, is visited at Vergina as one museum spread over several places: the Museum of the Royal Tombs, the Central Museum Building, the Palace, the theatre and the royal necropolis. This guide explains how the parts fit together, what the official pages say about the ticket, where they disagree, and what XTOUR does not know.
Akrotiri is a Bronze Age town buried by Santorini's eruption; Ancient Thera is a city founded centuries later on the Mesa Vouno ridge, and Hellenic Heritage announced that Ancient Thera would be closed from 27 June 2026 until further notice. This guide compares the two sites, says which museums in Fira and Athens hold their finds, and sets out where the official pages disagree.
Santorini, Mykonos, Crete and Corfu are four very different kinds of place, and XTOUR records each differently: two islands, two cities on Crete and one town on Corfu. This guide compares what XTOUR maps on each, what Greece's official tourism and heritage pages say about them, and where a site lies outside the destination it is planned from.
Corfu's UNESCO listing covers the Old Town, the Old and New Fortresses and the town's perimeter fortifications as one property, but the two fortresses are separate visits with separate tickets, different histories and different seasons. This guide compares them as the Ministry of Culture and Hellenic Heritage describe them, records where those pages disagree, and places Saint Spyridon and the Achilleion in relation to the town.
Cycladic figurines are the marble human figures made by the Early Cycladic culture of the Aegean islands in the third millennium BC. This article explains the types, what is and is not known about their purpose, the looted Keros Hoard, and the two Athens museums that show them, which are run in different ways and sell separate tickets.
Delos is a small island in the Cyclades, home to fewer than 25 people today, where Greek myth placed the birth of Apollo and Artemis; Hellenic Heritage presents it as an archaeological site and museum under one ticket. It is reached by boat from Mykonos, which is why XTOUR treats Mykonos as its base and never as the place that contains it.
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