A UNESCO World Heritage town shaped by Venetian, French and British rule, with tall pastel buildings, narrow lanes (kantounia), the arcaded Liston promenade inspired by Paris's Rue de Rivoli, and the Spianada, where cricket is played. Two fortresses guard the town; the Old Fortress has views over the town and the sea.
Outside the town, visit the Achilleion palace of Empress Sisi, and the beaches and coves of Paleokastritsa on the west coast.
A colourful seaside town on the Ionian coast of Epirus, in north-west Greece.
The oldest oracle in Greece, sacred to Zeus, where priests interpreted the rustling of the leaves of a sacred oak.
One of the deepest gorges in the world relative to its width, in the Pindus mountains of north-west Greece.
The capital of Epirus, on the shore of Lake Pamvotida.
A traditional mountain town high in the Pindus Mountains, at about 1,150 m, with stone houses, wooden balconies and slate roofs.
Orthodox monasteries built from the 14th century on top of huge sandstone pillars rising from the plain of Thessaly.
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