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A Greek monk paints an icon on Mount Athos.

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The tall and colourful houses on the Greek island of Hydra are built from the island's gray stone. Pictured here is the Port of Hydra.

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The Greek monument of Filopappos, built in AD 114-16 on the Hill of the Muses, or Filopappou Hill, is south-west of the Acropolis and offers spectacular views of the Parthenon and beyond.

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A beach on Greece's Elounda peninsula.

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Greece offers an ideal environment to experience rich underwater life and landscapes.

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Mount Athos is a World Heritage Site and is only accessible by boat. The island is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and special permission is required to visit the island.

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The ruins of the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion on Greece's Attica peninsula.

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The international airport in Athens

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The Greek island of Astypalaia, whose residents are renown for their hospitality, has some 300 monasteries and churches.

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The ancient theatre of Epidavros in the Poloponnese region of southern Greece was built in the fourth century BC.

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Ruins of the temple of Apollo in ancient Corinth, Greece. The temple was built around 550 BC.

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Charalampos Christopoulos of Greece, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, at a news conference in Geneva, 18 December 2008.