Report on tourism in Greece

Greece 

It is a state located in the southeast of the European continent on the Balkan peninsula borders. Greece has a population of about 10.8 million people, according to the census of 2011.

Athens is the political, economic and tourist capital of the country, the largest Greek cities are, followed by the city of Thessaloniki, an area of ​​the Republic of Greece 131.990 km², and this republic has a long history and great civilization throughout history.

Greece occupies a strategic location at the crossroads of the ancient world continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Greek border are as follows: shares land borders with Albania in the north-western part, and with the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria in the north and with Turkey in the north-east.

Greece consists of nine administrative geographical regions: Macedonia, Central Greece, Peloponnese and Thessaly and Epirus, the islands of the Aegean Sea (including Dodecanese and Cyclades), Thrace, Crete, and the islands of the Ionian Sea in the Aegean Sea, where is located to the east of the mainland, and the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south.

Greece has the longest coastline in the Mediterranean basin and has the longest coastline in the world at about 13676 km, Greece and includes a large number of islands is estimated at about 2000 islands, some of which is uninhabited island and the number 227 and the remaining uninhabited. Eighty percent of Greece's mountainous areas, the most famous of these mountains Mount Olympus being the highest peak in Greece as a height of 2918 meters.

Greece has one of the longest and oldest historical civilizations in the world, and is considered the cradle of Western civilization, and from this point of Greece is a democratic theater in the world, and the house of Western philosophy, and the maker of the Olympic Games, and the Theater of Western literature, and the cradle of history and political science, where he came out of the womb of this civilization many of the sciences, such as mathematics, and underwent the rule of the Islamic State in the era of the Ottoman Empire in the middle of the fifteenth century AD.

Greece is an advanced state in the economy and high-income, which entered the European Union system in 1981 and was one of the founding countries of the Union entered the euro currency in 2001, but unfortunately it was not a strong economy for the equivalent of the rest of the European countries Fceft by the economic crisis in 2010 and still affect them so far.

The most popular tourist sites in Greece

 Generating tourist life Greece large sums to fame tourist and religious, but the tourism economy in Greece began to grow dramatically after 1950, Greece entered annually 16 million tourists from around the world, and contributes to the tourism sector in the national income of Greece about 20% of GDP, We will quote here the most important tourist sites in Greece:

Parthenon on the Acropolis Mountain in the city of Athens, capital of Greece, a temple built an ancient Greek between 447 and 432 BC, it was designed by the architects of the Greeks months at the time they Ictinus and Calixrats. It meant tourists from all parts of the world and was built on the ruins of the famous Temple of the Acropolis.

Santorini Island, is considered one of the most beautiful Mediterranean islands have been sung by many poets and Greek philosophers, and this island civilization more than 4,000 years have been sung by the famous Plato, the philosopher, which is considered above the site of the most important continent sites lost Atlantis, an island above the winds rocks protected from the waves of the sea. Located in the south of Greece, and its capital is the city of Fira.

Moretos Beach in the island of Kefalonia, a beach with a tourist dye is located in the north-west of the island of Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea, characterized by fame of this beautiful beach colorful magical waters, where highlights several colors of water, including blue and turquoise color, and behind this beach stands out mountains are steep.

Valley of Samaria, in the island of Crete, this valley to visit more than half a million tourists a year, which is the valley's largest natural park in Greece, where many of the passages between the cliffs and high mountains, great beauty and tourist villages.

Delphi Theater, located on a high hill from the Temple of Apollo and is considered when the ancient Greeks of the Holy Land, overlooking the protected nature of the wonderful description green land, it has a wonderful sound system was built this theater of limestone, visited by more than a quarter of a million tourists a year.