This is the Greece chapter from Lonely Planet's Europe on a Shoestring guidebook.

With an alluring combination of history and hedonism, it's easy to see why most visitors head home vowing to return. Travellers to Greece inevitably adopt a favourite site they long to return to – get out there and find yours.

• island-hop at your own pace under the Aegean sun
• maps
• trace the ancient to the modern from the Acropolis to booming nightclubs in Athens
• transport
• lose yourself within the medieval walls of Rhodes Old Town
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Athens, Around Athens, Piraeus, The Peloponnese, Patra, Corinth, Ancient Corinth & Acrocorinth, Nafplio, Epidavros, Mycenae, Sparta, Mystras, Gythio, the Mani, Olympia, Central Greece, Delphi, Meteora, Northern Greece, Thessaloniki, Mt Olympus, Ioannina, Zagorohoria & Vikos Gorge, Igoumenitsa, Cyclades, Mykonos, Delos, Paros, Naxos, Ios, Santorini (Thira), Crete, Iraklio, Knossos, Hania, Samaria Gorge, Dodecanese, Rhodes, Kos, Northeastern Aegean Islands, Samos, Lesvos (Mytilini), Mithymna, Sporades, Skiathos, Ionian Islands, Corfu, Understand Greece, History, People, Food & Drink, Survival Guide, Directory, Getting There & Away, and Getting Around.