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New Year's Eve begins with the festive season called Fasching that lasts until Lent. There are large firework lightings in bigger cities. People attend midnight parties along with confetti, streamers and champagne. Many western civilizations have its roots in the soil of Greece. The umbilical chord of mother and her baby is still attached till date. The Greek traditions and customs have seeped down the ages. Witness to the "Peloponnesian War", the civilization of Crete governed by extensive bureaucracies, Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, dark ages with the annihilation of Mycenaean society, the Hellenistic period followed by rule of Macedonian royal family, Philip II, Alexander and the successor kings; Greece is a never ending tale of chronology.
Situated in the south-eastern part Europe, Greece covers the southernmost part of the Balkan Peninsular, extending to Turkey and Bulgaria in the north eastern part, Aegean Sea in the south east, Sea of Crete in the south and Ionian Sea in south west. Conventionally, Greece is an agricultural based economy. The industry of tourism is bulging now, day by day, capitalizing the golden pages of history. The shores of Greece saw the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. The beauty of Greece remains incomplete without the tour of Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Chios and the groups of Dodecanese and Cycladic islands in the Aegean Sea.
The mythical Mt. Olympus-the residence of the Olympians like Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Herms, Apollo, Aphrodite, Athena and Hermes, Delphi, Meteora, Mount Athos, Mount Olympus National Park, old town of Corfu, Santorini and many more will wait to tell the tale of their piece of life.
Greece Holidays
Attractions in Greece
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