Greece has about 6000 islands, 230 of which are inhabited. Here is a map explaining all of the Greek island groups.

When a shepherd—the only resident on the three-square-mile island of Despotikó—spotted a Byzantine coin lying in his goat pen in 2010, it was like finding an “X” on a treasure map, but the coin was ...

As the ancient Greek author Homer revealed in some of his works, most notably the Odyssey, a sailing journey across the Mediterranean and throughout the Greek islands can often produce memorable—and ...

The Cyclades, a scattered necklace of islands in the Aegean Sea, embody the quintessential Greek island dream with their ...

Over the years, while living on the Greek island of Syros (the administrative capital of the Cycladic group of islands – Kyklades in Greek), I had heard from various travelers how enchanting and ...

Whitewashed houses stacked like sugar cubes on the cliffs. Colorful sunsets and black-sand beaches. Donkeys, windmills and a winemaking tradition that goes back to ancient times. These are some of the ...

Set like gems in the sparkling blue Aegean Sea, each of the Cyclades islands has its own character. For Mykonos, the local culture is a mix of the sacred and the profane. This island is the gateway to ...

Santorini, Greece — Whitewashed houses stacked like sugar cubes on the cliffs. Colorful sunsets and black-sand beaches. Donkeys, windmills and a local winemaking tradition that goes back to ancient ...

There’s something deeply magnetic about the Greek Islands. Perhaps it began in my childhood when I first tasted honey-drenched loukoumades at a neighborhood festival and imagined a life in a ...

Millions of visitors flock to Greece each year to seek out its cultural treasures and natural beauty. Some rubberneck with the crowds chasing sunsets in Oia on Santorini, or seek out raucous revelry ...