Greece Road trips

3 curated road trips in Greece — Minoan Crete, Zagorohoria, Greece, Athens to Antiquity. Mapped stops, distance, duration, best season, and practical route notes.

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  Minoan CreteGreece · 745 km · 5–7 daysCrete's island circuit, the Minoan palace at Knossos (3,500 years old, Europe's first advanced civilization), the 16-km Samaria Gorge (Europe's longest), the Venetian harbour and old town of Chania, the pink-sand beach of Elafonisi, and the Lasithi Plateau's windmills. An island of three mountain ranges, Europe's oldest civilization, and 300 sunny days a year.
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  Zagorohoria, GreeceGreece · 160 km · 2–3 daysInto the slate-and-stone villages of the Zagori in the Pindos Mountains of Epirus, one of Greece's most untouched regions where roads are steep and narrow, stone bridges arch over rushing rivers, and village squares are shaded by centuries-old plane trees. The antidote to the Greek islands.
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  Athens to AntiquityGreece · 1,250 km · 7–10 daysThrough the heart of ancient Greece from Athens to Thessaloniki, the Acropolis, the oracle sanctuary of Delphi above the Gulf of Corinth, Meteora's Byzantine monasteries on vertical rock pillars, the ancient sanctuary of Olympia, and the Mycenaean ruins of the Peloponnese. The most historically dense road trip in Europe.