Touristic attractions: Greece has an abundance of resources that tourists with ecological and cultural interests will find attractive. Greece is full of archaeological sites and monuments, the monuments of the Classic Antiquity attract tourists from all the world, the archaeological areas still today continue to carry to the light the splendid Greek past. The sea and the beauties of the hundreds of Greek islands complete the reasons for a visit of this most interesting country, cradle of the civilization. 

The Greek coast has a total length of approximately 16,000 km, half this length is found around the thousands of Greek islands, while the rest extends along the mainland. The largest island is Crete, most islands lie in the Aegean Sea and are divided in seven groups (from north to south): The Northeastern Aegean Islands: Agios Efstratios, Thasos, Ikaria, Lesvos, Limnos, Inousses, Samos, Samothrace, Chios, Psara. The Sporades: Alonissos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Skyros Evia The Argo-Saronic Islands: Angistri, Aegina, Poros, Salamina, Spetses, Hydra and the coastal area of Methana. The Cyclades: A group of 56 islands, its most important ones being Amorgos, Anafi, Andros, Antiparos, Delos, Ios, Kea, Kimolos, Kythnos, Milos, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Serifos, Sikinos, Sifnos, Syros, Tinos, Folegandros, as well as the “Minor Cyclades” comprising Donousa, Irakleia, Koufonisia and Schinoussa. The Dodecanese: Astypalaia, Kalymnos, Karpathos, Kasos, Kastelorizo, Kos, Lipsi, Leros, Nisyros, Patmos, Rhodes, Symi, Tilos, Halki. Crete. The Ionian Sea is home to one sole island group: The Ionian Islands: Zakynthos, Ithaca, Corfu, Cephallonia, Lefkada, Paxi, Antipaxi, Ereikoussa, Mathraki, Meganissi, Othoni, Strofades. These islands, together with Kythira, which is however cut-off from the rest, opposite the southern Peloponnese (Lakonia), as well as neighbouring Antikythira, they constitute the Eptanissa. The islands of Gavdos (situated south of Crete), Elafonissos (in the Gulf of Laconia) and Trizonis (in the Gulf of Corinth), although not forming part of any group, are of unparalleled natural beauty.