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Griekenland

173 plaatsen · 367 musea

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Regio’s van Griekenland

Top museumsteden

Plaatsen in Griekenland

South Aegean Region

52 musea

Attica Region

80 musea

Central Macedonia Region

36 musea

Crete Region

31 musea

Peloponnese Region

30 musea

Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Region

17 musea

Central Greece Region

13 musea

Epirus Region

11 musea

North Aegean Region

11 musea

Ionian Islands Region

24 musea

West Greece Region

9 musea

Western Macedonia Region

35 musea

Thessaly

4 musea

Thessaly Region

5 musea

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Welcome to Greece

The country of temples, myths, democracy and the Olympic Games, with islands scattered over two seas.

Greece gave Europe its first theatres, its philosophy, its word for democracy and its Olympic Games. Its museums hold the Parthenon sculptures, the gold of Mycenae, the frescoes of Minoan Crete and the bronze Charioteer of Delphi. Plan your museum days on museumtickets.com, then eat a village salad with olive oil, honey and feta, and watch the sun go down over the sea.

  • 776 BCthe first recorded Olympic Games at Olympia
  • 508 BCAthens takes its first steps towards democracy
  • 1821the Greek War of Independence begins
  • 1981Greece joins the European Communities

Greece through the ages

Palaces, city-states, empires and a modern nation.

  1. c. 1700 BC

    Minoan Crete

    The palace of Knossos is the heart of the first great civilisation of Europe.

    Te zien in: Heraklion Archaeological Museum →
  2. c. 1600 BC

    Mycenae

    Warrior kings are buried with gold masks at Mycenae.

    Te zien in: National Archaeological Museum →
  3. 447 BC

    The Parthenon

    Athens begins the Parthenon on the Acropolis, with sculptures by Phidias' workshop.

    Te zien in: Acropolis Museum →
  4. c. 330 BC

    Alexander

    Alexander the Great of Macedon takes Greek culture as far as India.

    Te zien in: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
  5. 330

    Byzantium

    Constantinople becomes the capital of an empire that speaks Greek for a thousand years.

    Te zien in: Museum of Byzantine Culture →
  6. 1821

    Independence

    Greeks rise against Ottoman rule; the new state is recognised in 1830.

    Te zien in: National Historical Museum →

Women who shaped Greece

A poet, a sea captain of the revolution and a minister of culture.

Sappho

The poet of Lesbos, around 600 BC, whom the ancients called the tenth Muse.

Laskarina Bouboulina

A ship-owner from Spetses who commanded her own ships in the War of Independence.

Te zien in: Bouboulina Museum
Melina Mercouri

Actress and Minister of Culture who started the European Capital of Culture in 1985 and fought for the Parthenon marbles to come home.

Te zien in: Acropolis Museum →

Artists to look for in Greece

From the sculptor of the Parthenon to a Cretan painter in Toledo.

Phidias

The sculptor who led the work on the Parthenon and made the giant statues of Athena and Zeus.

Praxiteles

Sculptor of the 4th century BC, famous for soft, graceful marble gods.

El Greco

Domenikos Theotokopoulos, born in Crete, who became one of the great painters of Spain.

Nikolaos Gyzis

19th-century painter of everyday Greek life and dreamy allegories.

Yannis Tsarouchis

20th-century painter of sailors, cafés and Greek light.

Taste Greece

Olive oil, honey, feta and bread baked twice.

Horiatiki

The village salad: tomato, cucumber, onion, olives and a slab of feta with olive oil.

Spanakopita

A pie of spinach and cheese in thin filo pastry.

Dakos

A Cretan rusk of barley bread topped with grated tomato, cheese and olive oil.

Souvlaki

Small skewers of grilled meat, often in pita with tzatziki.

Loukoumades

Small fried dough balls soaked in honey and cinnamon.

Traditions and festivals through the year

Carnival, kites, Easter candles and summer feasts.

Apokries – late winter

Carnival weeks with masks and parades; Patras has the biggest.

Clean Monday – start of Lent

Families fly kites on hills and eat lagana bread and seafood.

Easter – spring

The biggest feast: candles lit at midnight, red eggs cracked together and lamb roasted on a spit.

Panigyria – summer

Villages celebrate their saints with music, dancing and long tables under the trees.

Anastenaria – spring

In a few northern villages, people dance barefoot over hot coals; UNESCO lists the custom.

Verborgen verhaal

Fire from the sun

The Olympic flame is still lit with a mirror at Olympia.

Lees het verhaalSluiten

Before every Olympic Games, women dressed as priestesses gather at the Temple of Hera in Olympia. The flame is lit by the sun's rays focused in a curved mirror, as the ancient Greeks lit sacred fires. Then the flame is carried by runners to the host city. The ceremony began in 1936 and links today's Games to Olympia.

Tips voor kunstliefhebbers

Heat

In summer go to open-air sites early in the morning; museums are cool at midday.

Ferries

Book island ferries in summer, and check the weather: strong winds can stop them.

Combine

At many sites, the site and its museum share one entrance.

Respect

In churches and monasteries, cover shoulders and knees.

Griekenland: plan je bezoek met museumtickets.com

Op museumtickets.com: 367 musea met foto’s, de route en de musea in de buurt. Bewaar je favorieten in het gratis Cultuurpaspoort en betaal, waar het museum dat aanbiedt, je entree vooraf.

Zo kom je er

Op weg naar Griekenland

Van het vliegveld naar het centrum met het openbaar vervoer, en daarna de treinen en lokale lijnen naar de musea.

Aankomen met het vliegtuig

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Athens Eleftherios VenizelosAthens · Athina · Piraeus

Reizen door Griekenland

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