>> Greece: Greek Culture

Greece is a country of a great and diverse culture influenced by its place at the junction between the East and the West and by the many occupations endured by the Greek people throughout history, on mailand Greece and the Greek Islands.

Greeks are particularly proud of their Greece culture and stick to it with particular passion, feeling that their culture is a definition of their national and ethnic belonging.

Traditions, religion, music, language, food and wines are the major composants of Greece Culture and constitute the base to know for those who wish to travel and spend their holidays in the beautiful country of Greece.

• Greece Traditions
Traditions in Greece and Greek Islands are either of a religious character or coming from paganism. Furthermore, most of the traditions and festivals still followed and celebrated today, are religious.

Many Greeks are very superstitious people and believe a lot in religion as well as in supernatural or paranormal phenomenon. It impress many visitors who travel to Greece .

• Greece Religion
The Greek population is composed of a 97% of Christian Orthodox. The rest of the population is Muslim, Roman Catholic and Jewish. Greece and Russia are the only countries to have such a proportion of people belonging to the Orthodox Church.

• Greece Music
Greek music is of unbelievable diversity due to the creative Greek assimilation of different influences of the Eastern and Western culture of Asia and Europe.
Music and Greece have a long history dating from the Antiquity...

• Greece Food and Wine
Greek cuisine is famous for its good quality products and the amazing taste of its food and wines. Some dishes are the same everywhere in Greece, whereas some others are local culinary specialties or same dishes cooked in different manners (in the Greek islands, Crete, Thessaloniki, etc…).