Domenikos Theotokopoulos, well known as El Greco was one of the greatest painters. El Greco’s paintings adorn the largest museums and private collections. In Greece there are six paintings of Theotokopoulos: “St Luke Painting the Virgin and Child” and
According to Hesiod’s Theogony, in the beginning, there was only Chaos. Dense darkness covered everything until the Earth was born out of Chaos and the mountains, the sea, and then the sky (Uranus) with the sun, the moon and the stars. Then Uranus and Earth came together and
One of the oldest wine-producing regions in the world, the first evidence of Greek wine dates about 6,500 years ago when wine was produced on a household or communal basis. In ancient times, the wines of Greece were exported all around the Mediterranean basin and in Roman times, it was considered the best wine of the Empire.