Promoting Beautiful Greece: World Tourism Day 2023 Greek Photo Competition #WTD2023 🇬🇷 💙 🇬🇷

 

We took this photo of  the Parthenon on Athens' sacred rock, the Acropolis from one of Athens' gorgeous rooftops, just as raindrops were falling on our heads, today #WorldTouristDay2023 and thought it was the perfect photo for our album cover this year. 

 

September 27 is known as World Tourism Day, 

and as always is a great opportunity 

to promote our beautiful Greece -   

THE Tourist Destination -
The ULTIMATE Tourist Destination!

Here at Global Greek World it is the day we launch our Greek Photo Competition every year on our Global Greek World Facebook Page to showcase this magnificent country of ours.

2023 set all sorts of records. 

 it was a wonderful year for tourism in Greece and we are thrilled that so many people chose Greece for their holidays/extended vacations! 

It is almost October and Athens is still full of visitors as are so many other parts of our lovely country.

We are also thrilled that so many of our friends managed to get here again this year for the first time after a long time. 
 We look forward to it being a record year for entries!

 

Thank you all! 

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#StaySafe ️

Here goes for our 12th Annual Greek Photo Competition! 

We've set up the album for 2023, now it is over to YOU!

Check it out here

The rules are simple:

Everyone can enter! 

All it takes is a photo that you have taken yourself, anytime, anywhere in Greece that we can add to the album so that people can vote. 

Maximum number of entries per person is 3. 

Send us the photo(s)you would like to enter in the competition either by emailing us directly or by clicking on our Facebook Page, liking it and sending your photo(s) to us via our Facebook Message facility.

You can send in your favourite photos of Greece until the new closing date for entries, Sunday 5th November, extended by a week from Oxi Day, 28 October 2023.

After that voting begins in earnest!

You can vote for all the picture(s) you like...with a 'like'.

The picture with the greatest number of 'Likes' 
when the competition closes (sometime in December) wins....

Stay tuned

 

we would love to be able to give away many great prizes to the winners again this year but we must rely on sponsors as we don't have the necessary financial resources to do this ourselves. 

so...

if you would like to sponsor a prize please contact us.
It's been a great year for our hospitality and travel industry so...

If you are a hotel, resort or part of the hospitality industry in Greece we would particularly love to hear from you! 

What you can offer the winner(s): 

A weekend for two at your establishment, 
A dinner for two at your restaurant, 
an air-ticket to an island, 
boat tickets eg a one day 3 island cruise 
even free entry to one of our wonderful museums,  
a beach towel or a beach accessory 
a Greek-related book, 
a bottle of Greek wine
these are all great prizes!

YOU are the ones we are trying to support! 

 

  A BIG thank you to last year's wonderful sponsors 

 

Sue, The Angelakos Family and their Luxury Cruise Company Enter Maritime Co

 

Angela Bereri 

 

Emons, the publishers of  '111 Places in Athens That You Shouldn't Miss' 

by three of our  talented #GlobalGreek writers,
Alexia Amvrazi, Diane Shugart aka @DianaLizia on Twitter, Diana Farr Louis
and photographer Yannis Varouhakis  

The talented Honorary #GlobalGreek writer Peter Barber, author of
"A Parthenon on our Roof" and "A Parthenon in Pefki"     

for their generosity and their lovely prizes!

so...

 

Start choosing your best pictures....  

 check out your albums, 

digital or otherwise,
and 
send us your entries!

We are waiting! 

Good luck!

Καλή Επιτυχία!

 

Our thoughts are with Peter and Alexandra and all the people who have suffered the devastation to their properties and loss of animals wrought by Storm Daniel followed by Storm Elias. 

Wishing you all strength and courage!

At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows!
© GlobalGreekWorld 2009-2023 All Rights Reserved

Promoting Beautiful Greece: #WorldTourismDay 2016 #GreekPhotoCompetition #WTD2016

 September 27 is known as World Tourism Day, and as always is a great opportunity to promote our beautiful Greece - the Ultimate Tourist Destination! 

Here at Global Greek World it is the day we launch our Greek Photo Competition every year on our Global Greek World Facebook Page to showcase this magnificent country of ours.

So here goes! 

We've set up the album for 2016, now it is over to YOU!

Check it out here

The rules are simple:

Anyone can enter! 

All it takes is a photo that you have taken yourself, anytime, anywhere in Greece that we can add to the album so that people can vote. 

Maximum number of entries per person is 3. 

Send us the photo(s)you would like to enter in the competition either by emailing us directly or by clicking on our Facebook Page, liking it and sending your photo(s) to us via our Facebook Message facility. 

You can send in your favourite photos of Greece until the closing date for entries - Friday 28 October 2016.

You can vote for the picture(s) you like...with a 'like'. 

The picture with the greatest number of 'Likes' when the competition closes (sometime in November) wins.... 

PRIZES TO BE ANNOUNCED....
Watch this space! 

 A big thank you to last year's sponsors

Sue, The Angelakos Family and Alpha Beach Hotel, 
Giannina at Bijou Corfu and 
Matt Barrett Econopouly at GreeceTravel

for their generosity in donating the great prizes for the  winners.

We're working on giving away some great prizes to the winners again this year, so stay tuned.  
We would love to be able to give away some tickets to beautiful Greek destinations but we must rely on sponsors as we don't have the necessary financial resources to do this ourselves, 
so...

if you would like to sponsor a prize please contact us.

If you are a hotel, resort or part of the hospitality industry in Greece we would particularly love to hear from you! 
What you can offer the winner(s): 

A weekend for two at your establishment, 
A dinner for two at your restaurant, 
an air-ticket to an island, 
boat tickets eg a one day 3 island cruise 
even free entry to one of our wonderful museums, 
these are all great prizes!

YOU are the ones we are trying to support!

In the meantime, check out your albums, 
digital or otherwise,
and 
Start choosing your best pictures.... 

We are waiting! 

Good luck!

Καλή Επιτυχία!

PS Check out last year's entries in the video compilation in the sidebar

At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows! 

© GlobalGreekWorld 2009-2016 All Rights Reserved

Promoting Beautiful Greece: World Tourism Day 2015 #Greek Photo Competition #WTD2015

 September 27 is known as World Tourism Day, and as always is a great opportunity to promote our beautiful Greece - the Ultimate Tourist Destination! 

Here at Global Greek World it is the day we launch our Greek Photo Competition every year on our Global Greek World Facebook Page to showcase this magnificent country of ours.

So here goes! 

We've set up the album for 2015, now it is over to YOU!

Check it out here

The rules are simple:

Anyone can enter! 

All it takes is a photo that you have taken yourself, anytime, anywhere in Greece that we can add to the album so that people can vote. 

Maximum number of entries per person this year too is 3. 

Send us the photo(s)you would like to enter in the competition either by emailing us directly or by clicking on our Facebook Page, liking it and sending your photo(s) to us via our Facebook Message facility. 

Closing date for entries is Friday 23 October 2015.

You can vote for the picture(s) you like...with a 'like'. 

The picture with the greatest number of 'Likes' when the competition closes wins....

PRIZES TO BE ANNOUNCED....
Watch this space! 

 We're working on giving away some great prizes to the winners this year, so stay tuned. We would love to be able to give away some tickets to beautiful Greek destinations but we must rely on sponsors as we don't have the necessary financial resources to do this ourselves, 
so...

if you would like to sponsor a prize please contact us.

If you are a hotel, resort or part of the hospitality industry in Greece we would particularly love to hear from you! 
What you can offer the winner(s): 

A weekend for two at your establishment, 
A dinner for two at your restaurant, 
an air-ticket to an island, 
boat tickets eg a one day 3 island cruise 
even free entry to one of our wonderful museums, 
these are all great prizes!

YOU are the ones we are trying to support!

In the meantime, check out your albums, 
digital or otherwise,
and 
Start choosing your best pictures.... 

We are waiting! 

Good luck!

Καλή Επιτυχία!

At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows! 

© GlobalGreekWorld 2009-2015 All Rights Reserved

Promoting Beautiful Greece: #WorldTourismDay 2012 #GreekPhotoCompetition

White on Blue... Blue on Blue...Aegean Blue...

September 27 is known as World Tourism Day, and that's a great moment to promote our beautiful Greece! Here at Global Greek World we thought it would be a great opportunity to launch our Greek Photo Competition on the GGW Facebook Page.

If you have a photo of Greece you would like to send us for the competition please email us either directly or by clicking on our Facebook Page and sending it to us via our FB message facility.

Check out the photos received so far, we've posted these in the album World Tourism Day Greek Photo Competition and vote with a 'like'. The picture with the greatest number of likes wins.......well, we'll see, we're still working on the prize(s)!

Good luck! Καλή Επιτυχία!

Our collage of the wonderful photographs received so far!  

Stunning, superb, beautiful Greece...

© GlobalGreekWorld 2012 - 2019 All Rights Reserved

The Beauty That Is Greece: World Tourism Day September 27, 2010

 General Theodoros Kolokotronis

This statue of the most well known of the leaders of the 1821 Revolution 

stands in front of the National Historical Museum in Athens

 The  Old Parliament (Palaia Vouli )

now 

The National Historical Museum

 Harilaos Trikoupis 

Greek Prime Minister 1880 on
 'The Father of Modern Greece'

The statue of the visionary Trikoupis is known stands in front of the Palaia Vouli.
Many of his personal belongings are on display in the museum

Η ΕΛΛΑΣ ΘΕΛΕΙ ΝΑ ΖΗΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΘΑ ΖΗΣΗ
Ellas wants to live and live she will!

This quote at the base of the statue is indicative of
Trikoupis' deep faith in the future of Greece

 Harilaos Trikoupis Bridge - Rio- Antirio

The world's largest cable-stayed bridge

Harilaos Trikoupis' vision of uniting mainland Greece with a
 bridge connecting Rio with Antirio, materialised in 2004 and took his name. 
The Corinth Canal and the Athens Suburban Railway (Ilektriko) 
were two of the projects undertaken during Trikoupis' premiership.

Yesterday, 27 September,  was World Tourism Day and as Greece is one of the world's foremost tourist destinations, the Hellenic Culture Ministry advised that all Museums and archaeological sites in Greece would be open and entrance free for the public! 

A great initiative which follows the Cultural Heritage Weekend which falls traditionally on the last weekend of September and effectively meant that Greece's visitors and residents alike had a unique chance to visit Greece's many museums and archaeological sites, free of charge for 3 days in a row!

This post is slightly different to our usual kind of posts. Greece has so many excellent museums and archaeological sites and so many beautiful spots that it is hard to fit them into one post, but we thought we would just share some of our favourites with you ...in photos!

Sunset

 

Kalyves Beach, Apokorona, Crete

Aghios Manolis, Askyfou, Sfakia , Crete

This is the only known church dedicated to St Manoli,
on the road to Sfakia

The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus 

Sacred, hallowed ground

An amazing sense of History all around...

The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus 

The Left Portal

  Melina on The Acropolis

Melina Mercouri, Minister, Activist and Actress fought till her last breath for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles in Athens.
Her legacy to the world...

The New Acropolis Museum - Melina's Vision

Waiting patiently for the Parthenon Marbles to come home...

The New Acropolis Museum

One of the many excavations on display that the visitor can see in situ

 

The Theatre of Herodus Atticus (Herodeion)

  
History, culture and legend come together below the Parthenon

 Limni Kournas

The only natural freshwater lake in Crete, 

Kournas is also home to small creatures and many ducks. 

 Rumour has it that the ducks are looked after  by the resident 

water nymphs who comb their hair in the moonlight. The plants around 

the shores (liges) were used extensively for weaving the baskets 

which have made the region of Apokorona famous. 

Nafplio

Greece's first capital city, a beautiful town, a great main square, 

loads of history and it will soon host a great cupcake cafe!

Paleros 

Idyllic sailing in the deep blue of the Ionian Sea

with Meganissi and Lefkada just across the water... 

around the corner from Skorpios, Onassis' private paradise

The sacred olive tree....

Greece's capital city got it's name from the  Goddess Athena when she won the competition with Poseidon. Athena struck  her spear to the ground and caused an olive tree to spring forth, thus  supplying wood, oil and food. This appealed to the Athenians who judged  that the city would be named after her... This particular olive tree is  over 1000 years old and is in the Apokorona region of Crete

Venizelos Tombs

Magnificent view of Chania, Crete from the Profiti Ilia site of 

Eleftherios and Sofoklis Venizelos Tombs at Akrotiri 

Venizelos Tombs 

A 'Tomb' with a view, the best in Chania!

Hora Sfakion, Sfakia, Crete

The Allied troops were evacuated to North Africa from this bay 

after the Battle of Crete in May and June of 1941

Goats... with a view

A familiar sight all around Greece

The House of Troy... Iliou Melathron

was built by the architect Ernst Ziller for archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann and his Greek wife Sophia, as a residence. At the time, it also housed some of the mythical treasures from Schliemann's Troy and Mycenae excavations. Today it is the Athens Numismatic Museum and apart from the fabulous coin collections and historical documents, it also showcases Schliemann's life and works with wall paintings of his finds. A well-kept secret is the little cafe tucked away in the garden behind the building - a welcome oasis in a busy city... makes great hot chocolate!

At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows! 

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