Ioannina

The land of Graekoi

• Top Attractions

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• Archaeological Sites

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• Museums

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• Monasteries

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• History

  The oracle is mentioned: by Herodotus, in the Argonautic expedition, by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey as well as by Aristotle: "because there lived the so-called Greeks then, now Greeks". The archaeological excavations did not answer the question of when the cult began in Dodoni, which until the 15th century BC was cut off from southern Greece. From …

• Culture

  Tradition of the burning holly tree In Ioannina, on the day of the Nativity of Christ, children go home to wish a Happy New Year holding laurel and holly leaves. When he enters the house, they throw the holly leaves on the fireplace and as soon as they start to spark they wish, "Lambs, goats, brides and grooms!". This is …

• Photographs

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• Information

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