Greece Baedeker is divided into four main categories
- background, practicalities, tours & A-Z of sites. The guide is introduced
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Greece in the Countries, Regions & Cities series from Rough Guides; comprehensively detailed guidebooks specifically designed for independent travellers & serving a range of worldwide destinations. Widely recognised for their free editorial style, Rough Guide authors are allowed to express their personal opinions on a range of subjects. Although sometimes controversial, this editorial stance allows readers to experience more detailed & personal takes on each destination, a feature often more limited in other guidebooks. Cultural & historical nuances are explored in significant depth throughout the text & descriptions on the ambience of individual settings alongside personal recommendations, particularly in cities, are notably prevalent. Each Rough Guide in the Countries, Regions & Cities series has a similar layout. A ...

When Brian de Jongh`s two classic Companion Guides, Southern Greece & Mainland Greece, were first published they were greeted with acclaim & immediately established themselves as essential guides. They have now been combined into this single volume, covering the whole of the Greek mainl&. This new edition has been thoroughly revised by John Gandon (Brian de Jongh`s nephew) & Geoffrey Graham-Bell, taking into account both new archaeological discoveries & recent development. Brian de Jongh combined an expert knowledge of history, archaeology & mythology with a profound understanding of the Greek people & a feeling for the landscape which inspired their myths & monuments: he describes a country that he loved & much of which Pausanias, writing almost two thousand years ago, would still recognise. This book is, more than ever, the most indispensable of all modern guides to Greece. ...

This lavishly illustrated volume invites readers to delve into the source of the oldest & most authentic roots of Western civilization, ...

Greece at 1;700, 000 on a large, indexed road map from the Swiss Hallwag/Kümmerly + Frey cartographic house, presenting the mainland & the islands together, with only Crete shown as an inset. Coverage extends to Istanbul &

Includes:: the whole of the Aegean coast of Turkey, showing ferry routes to the islands from both countries. Names of larger towns & the islands are in both Greek & Latin alphabets. Topography is shown by light, unobtrusive relief shading with names of mountain ranges & spot heights. Road network

Includes:: selected minor roads & country tracks, & indicates motorway sections due to open in 2016 (Wolfgang Schäuble permitting!), motorway services, roads closed to motorized traffic, opening months of mountain passes, & driving distance on main & many local roads. Scenic routes are highlighted. Railway lines & ferry services are

Includes:: & local airports are marked. A range of symbols indicate various places of interest including campsites, archaeological remains, etc. The map has latitude & longitude lines at 15’ & 30’ respectively. The index is in a separate booklet attached to the map cover. Map legend

Includes:: English. Also provided is an enlargement showing in greater detail the Athens area with access to the port in Piraeus & the Eleftherios Venizelos airport.







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Greece at 1:300, 000 from Marco Polo Travel Publishing on a double-sided map with special features to aid navigation. Coverage: mainland without the eastern Thrace, Ionian Islands, Sporades, plus Cyclades on insets as either groups or individual islands. A fold-out extension of the map cover gives at-a-glance overview of the whole area covered by the map with the adjoining regions, highlighting main places of interest & making it much easier to find various localities on the main map and/or plan a route. A set of seven peel-on/peel-off stickers, removable without damaging the map, is provided to make routes or locations more prominent when navigating. The map aims to provide good coverage of the mainl&, divided north/south around the town of Lamia & across northern Evia/ Euboea. It is not recommended for island hopping across the Aegean where not all the islands are shown in their proper geographical locations: southern Cyclades are on one large inset, but the northern part of the group, e.g. Mykonos or Syros, is on separate individual insets. Cartography is from the renowned German publishers Mair Dumont. Relief shading with numerous spot heights & names of mountain ranges shows the topography. Road network

Includes:: selected minor roads & local tracks, & indicates distances on main routes. Scenic routes are highlighted. Railway lines are included, plus numerous ferry routes between the mainland & the islands. The map highlights numerous places of interest, both cultural sights including archaeological remains & various natural sites, showing national parks & other protected areas. Symbols mark selected campsites & youth hostels, viewpoints, etc. All place names are in both Greek & Latin alphabet, except those of places of interest shown in Latin script only. The map has no geographical coordinates. The index is in a separate booklet attached to the map cover. Multilingual map legend

Includes:: English. In addition to numerous insets covering various islands the map also

Includes:: street plans of central Athens & Thessaloniki.





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Greece & the Aegean coast of Turkey at 1:800, 000 on a double-sided indexed road map from the AA, with cartography by Freytag & Berndt, with enlargements showing motorway access to Athens & Istanbul. Numerous places of interest are prominently highlighted. On one side is mainland Greece without Thrace, but including Macedonia & most of Albania. The reverse side shows the Aegean, including the Greek side Attica with Athens, Chalkidiki Peninsula & Thrace, with Crete shown as an inset
- coverage of the Turkish side extends east to include the whole of the Sea of Marmara with Istanbul & along the southern coast the Dalaman airport & Fethiye. The region
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Greece at 1:300, 000 from Mair Dumont on a double-sided map with special features to aid navigation. The map covers the mainland but without the eastern part of Thrace, plus the Ionian islands & the Sporades, with the Cyclades shown in various insets as either groups or individual islands. Maps in the Mair Dumont ...

Greece at 1:800, 000 from Mair Dumont with special features to aid navigation. Coverage

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Greece at 1:800, 000 from Geo Center with cartography from Mair Dumont. Coverage

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