Beach

Finally in Volos

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February 11th 2008
Our first few days we spent walking around the city of Volos, it is much smaller then Athens, so I felt much more at ease almost immediately! We saw some of the older parts of town and the old Cretion church that now had a Greek Orthodox church built on top of it. We saw the water front and some of the beaches. However the beaches that are over here closest to the city are more rocky beachs then s ... read more

Europe » Greece » Thessaly

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Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it gradually added neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In Worl... ... read more