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Lakonia , the ancient territories of the Spartans, covers the area between the high ridges of Mount Taiyetos and Mount Parnonas and everywhere to the south. Exclude the lush Evrotas valley, with Sparti itself and Mystra, and you are left with a dramatic and underpopulated landscape of harsh mountains and poor, dry, rocky soil. Landforms apart, the highlights here are the extraordinarily preserved Byzantine town of Monemvasia - an essential visit for any tour of the southern Peloponnese - and the aridly remote Mani peninsula, with its bizarre history of violence and piety, of feuds and unique tower-houses and frescoed churches with

barrel roofs. Monemvasia is a regular stop for Flying Dolphin hydrofoils from Pireas and the Argo-Saronic islands, and would make a superb entry point to the peninsula. In summer, the Maniot port of Yithio (Gythion), and Neapoli , south of Monemvasia, are additional stops on the hydrofoil and provide the easiest links to Kythira , technically an Ionian island under the administration of Pireas, but covered - due to its Peloponnesian access - in this section of the guide.

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  The three northern Sporades , Skiathos, Skopelos and Alonissos, are scattered (as their Greek name suggests) just off the mainland, their mountainous terrain betraying their origin as extensions of Mount Pilio in Thessaly. - Greece
  

• Thessaly and central Greece Travel Videos
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  Central Greece is a region of scattered highlights, above all the site of the ancient oracle at Delphi (modern Dhelfi), and, further north, the other-worldly rock monasteries of the Meteora . - Greece
  

• Cyclades Greece Travel Videos
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  Named after the circle they form around the sacred island of Delos, the Cyclades (Kykladhes) is the most satisfying Greek archipelago for island-hopping. - Greece
  

• Athens and around Greece Travel Videos
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  ATHENS is not a graceful city. - Greece
  

• Argo-Saronic Greece Travel Videos
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  The rocky, volcanic chain of Argo-Saronic islands, most of them barely an olive's throw from the Argolid, differs to a surprising extent not just from the mainland but from one another. - Greece
  

• Epirus and the west Greece Travel Videos
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  Epirus ( Ipiros in modern Greek) has the strongest regional identity in mainland Greece. - Greece
  

• Macedonia and Thrace Greece Travel Videos
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  The two northern regions of Macedonia and Thrace have been part of the Greek state for just less than three generations. - Greece
  

• Crete Greece Travel Videos
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  Crete (Kriti) is a great deal more than just another Greek island. - Greece
  

• East and North Aegean Greece Travel Videos
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  The seven substantial islands and four minor islets scattered off the north Aegean coast of Asia Minor and northeastern Greece form a rather arbitrary archipelago. - Greece
  

• Dodecanese Greece Travel Videos
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  The furthest Greek island group from the mainland, the Dodecanese (Dhodhekanisos) lie close to the Turkish coast - some of the islands, like Kos and Kastellorizo, almost within hailing distance of Anatolia. - Greece
  

• Peloponnese Greece Travel Videos
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  The appeal of the Peloponnese (Peloponnisos in Greek) is hard to overstate. - Greece
  

• Ionian Islands Greece Travel Videos
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  The six Ionian islands, shepherding their satellites down the west coast of the mainland, float on the haze of the Adriatic, their green, even lush, silhouettes coming as a shock to those more used to the stark outlines of the Aegean. - Greece