City Gloss

Lenin and Gorky walteten temporarily OLAF Director the school of revolutionary technology; Onassis, Krupp and the German author Kurt Erich Suckert, alias Curzio Malaparte, built themselves houses on the island. The tourist main capital of the island is the Blue Grotto, a cave in the sea water thanks to indirect light very nice Color is assumed. The short boat trip to the cave, however, is an expensive pleasure. The northernmost of Corfu and sexiest of the Greek Ionian Islands is much visited by cruise ships from Venice. Kerkira is the beautiful capital between two fortresses. Here you can wonderfully stroll through the streets.

Not far from the city, was once the Austrian empress Elisabeth (sissy) build a magnificent Villa and called them after their favorite hero Achilleion. The German Kaiser Wilhelm II. later acquired the Villa. Crete the country of origin of the oldest civilization of Europe 8618 square kilometres and is home to about half a million people. Iraklion is the largest city, capital of the island but is Chania.

Crete is the birthplace of Zeus of Greek mythology. The young God kidnapped the beautiful Princess Europe from Asian shores after Crete, what is the origin of our continent thus according to legend disguised as a bull,. Crete is controlled today by the cruise ships usually its beaches because of, but also a study about the Excavation fields is worthwhile. A visit to the excellent Archaeological Museum of Iraklion is advisable to get into the mood. Rhodes the Greek island of roses below of the Turkish mainland is about 1400 square kilometres in size and especially popular as a holiday island, because she can offer a range of attractions besides beautiful sandy beaches. Cruise ships set on a Mediterranean Cruise close to the old town with the Palace of the Grand Master and Knight Street. Although, legendary colossus of Rhodes, a 30-metre statue of the Sun God, who was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, has been destroyed by an earthquake, but from the reign of the Knights still interesting buildings are at the northern tip of the island to visit.