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7 Jul 2020 5 minute read 0 comments Publish7
The Stavros Niarchos Park is a very unique, one of a kind, park in the Southern suburb Kallithea in Athens. The park is build with the focus on 'an enrichment for the body and the soul, and this, for young and old'. Before the park was build (and co...
7 Jul 2020 7 minute read 1 comment YouveBeenGreeked
For about 50 years, in around 1,200 BC, the major palace centres of Mycenaean culture were burnt to the ground, with the major remnants of the civilization following suit in 1,150 BC. The palace economy was wiped out of existence, politically and mil...
6 Jul 2020 5 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The Mycenaean Era of roughly 1,600 to 1,070 BC saw the rise of important palace centres, such as Mycenae, Pylos, Tiryns, Thebes, Iolkos and Athens. For Greece, this era was the final stage of the Bronze Age, thought to have begun for the Greeks in ar...
3 Jul 2020 5 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Greece is undoubtedly the cradle of most of Western civilisation today, and its history spans back several millennia to the Mycenaean Greeks, who famously fought at Troy. However, before even these ancient Greeks flourished, another peoples of the Gr...
3 Jul 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Publish7
Mpati Beach is a very nice, relatively long (about 800m), sandy beach. It is mainly visited by the locals from the village above this beach: Palaio Faliro (Παλαιό Φάληρο). During the week though it serves also many visitors, from other places around...
1 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Publish7
'Spanakorizo' (σπανακόρυζο) is a dish that got its name from its 2 main ingredients: 'Spanaki' meaning 'Spinach' and 'Rizo' meaning 'Rice'. So as its name 'Spinach Rice' already reveals, it is a very easy to create dish. Spanakorizo can be eaten bot...
27 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Publish7
'Akrotiri Lombardy' beach is a very cosy, sandy beach in the small village of Agia Marina, about 28 km. away from the city center of Athens (Syntagma square). This place is easy approachable as it is directly next to the main road, Sounio Avenue (Λ...
25 Jun 2020 2 minute read 4 comments Publish7
'Fakes' or 'Lentil soup' is a main dish that is very present in the Greek cuisine. Together with chickpeas soup(ρεβύθια) it is one of the dishes that is believed to bear the secret to pave a way into a long, healthy life. (According to several resea...
24 Jun 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Publish7
'Ta Limanaki' or 'The small ports' is actually not really one beach. It is more a cluster of small bays, on the rocks, that stretch from Vouliagmeni (Βουλιαγμένη) down to Varkiza (Βάρκιζα). The main reason why you will find a lot of people here is be...
24 Jun 2020 2 minute read 5 comments Publish7
'Gemista' is the Greek word for 'stuffed'. So 'Piperies Gemista' means 'stuffed paprika'. Here in Greece we stuff nearly every vegetable we can find. From tomatoes, aubergines, paprika's, mushrooms and so on. Just name it. The dish I present here is...
