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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/pelegrino/">Nick in exsilio</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegrino/55505635942/" title="Jockey of Artemision (detail)"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55505635942_e78b59db63_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Jockey of Artemision (detail)" /></a></p> <p>Recovered from a shipwreck of Cape Artemision 1926-1928. 140-150 BC. Inv. X 15177. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/pelegrino/">Nick in exsilio</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegrino/55506638881/" title="Jockey of Artemision (detail)"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55506638881_a348c20860_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Jockey of Artemision (detail)" /></a></p> <p>Recovered from a shipwreck of Cape Artemision 1926-1928. 140-150 BC. Inv. X 15177. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/martin-m-miles/">Martin M. Miles</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/martin-m-miles/55506861930/" title="Rio–Antirrio Bridge"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55506861930_2f26fbd2e8_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Rio–Antirrio Bridge" /></a></p> <p> <br /> <br /> <br /> The Rio–Antirrio Bridge seen from Nafpaktos<br /> <br /> The bridge crosses the Rion Strait between the Gulf of Corinth and Gulf of Patras, linking the town of Rio on the Peloponnese peninsula to Antirrio on mainland Greece. Its five-span four-pylon cable-stayed portion of length 2,252 m (7,388 ft) is the world's third longest cable-stayed deck; only the decks of the Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge in Shaoxing, China and the Millau Viaduct in France are longer.<br /> <br /> The bridge was inaugurated on 7 August 2004, a week before the opening of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Olympic torchbearers were the first to officially cross it.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/martin-m-miles/">Martin M. Miles</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/martin-m-miles/55506446056/" title="Nafpaktos"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55506446056_672f969ece_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Nafpaktos" /></a></p> <p><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Nafpaktos, now a town with just under 15,000 inhabitants, has been an important port since classical times. During the Peloponnesian War, it served as a naval base for the Athenians, but was seized from them in 405 BC. In 338 BC, the Aetolians took control of the town, which they defended for a long time, though in vain, against the Romans in 191 BC.<br /> <br /> In the Middle Ages, the city was ceded by the Byzantine Emperor Manuel to the Venetians, who fortified it so strongly that in 1477 an Ottoman army of 30,000 men was forced to withdraw without success. It was not until 1499 that Bayezid II was able to force the city to surrender with an army of 150,000 men.<br /> <br /> At the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the Venetian-Spanish fleet defeated the Ottoman fleet stationed there. It was the last major galley battle in the Mediterranean, heralding the end of Turkish dominance. Lepanto was the Venetian name for Nafpaktos. During this battle, up to 40,000 people died in a single day.<br /> <br /> From 1678, Nafpaktos was once again under Venetian rule as Lepanto, but was returned to the Ottoman Empire under the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/197165646@N02/">spilios101</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/197165646@N02/55506519133/" title="Fira Santorini"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55506519133_1ced0b00e8_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="Fira Santorini" /></a></p> <p>Arial view of Fira Santorini</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/204917189@N04/">AlanPou</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/204917189@N04/55505263877/" title="Week3SantoriniAlansPhone-27"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55505263877_5ecc802f90_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Week3SantoriniAlansPhone-27" /></a></p> <p>Mannequins waiting for the boat, Santorini</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/alexring/">alexring</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexring/55506280664/" title="Molyvos moonrise"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55506280664_e218b75e6a_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Molyvos moonrise" /></a></p> <p>Μια μέρα μετά την πανσέληνο, το φεγγάρι ανατέλλει πίσω απ' το κάστρο του Μολύβου στη Λέσβο, κι εγώ ο τυχερός εντελώς κατά τύχη βρέθηκα στο σωστό σημείο τη σωστή στιγμή με τον σωστό φακό και με τρίποδο!!<br /> <br /> One day after full moon, the moon rises behind the castle of Molyvos in Lesvos island, Greece, and lucky me happened to be all by chance at the right place at the right moment with the right lens and my tripod!!</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/pkostar/">PattyK.</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/pkostar/55506194984/" title="*"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55506194984_31a3801564_m.jpg" width="240" height="156" alt="*" /></a></p> <p>Ioannina, Greece</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/paoloriccardocarrara/">PaoloRiccardoCarrara</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/paoloriccardocarrara/55504559077/" title="Naxos, Greece"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55504559077_e88522d543_m.jpg" width="240" height="174" alt="Naxos, Greece" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ianw1951/">ianw1951</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianw1951/55505751445/" title="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8181.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55505751445_58171e5851_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8181.jpg" /></a></p> <p>View from Apeiranthos</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ianw1951/">ianw1951</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianw1951/55504367992/" title="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8167.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55504367992_6bac7a448d_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8167.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Looking across the core of the metamorphic core complex bounded by the metamorphic carapace.<br /> <br /> The island of Naxos hosts a metamorphic core complex. The core region consists of highly strained migmatites and gneisses, with intercalated marbles and leucogranites, which are separated from a lower-grade deformed and attenuated sequence of Mesozoic shelf succession (metamorphosed to marbles and schist) by a major ductile shear zone and forming a carapace to the migmatite dome. <br /> <br /> The complex has been previously considered to represent a Cordilleran-style metamorphic core complex that formed during Cenozoic extension of the Aegean Sea. The Naxos metamorphic core complex is now interpreted to have formed via crustal thickening, regional metamorphism, and partial melting in a compressional setting, termed the Aegean orogeny, and it was exhumed from the midcrust due to the switch from compression to extension at ca. 15 Ma.<br /> <br /> In western central Naxos, a largely dismembered sequence of ophiolitic material is composed of hydrothermally altered pillow basalts, serpentinites, and oceanic sediments<br /> <br /> Miocene to Pleistocene sedimentary successions are unconformably laid on top of this mélange, and they are composed of fluvial conglomerates, in some cases with boulders and clasts of a variety of ophiolitic and metamorphic material derived from the footwall.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ianw1951/">ianw1951</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianw1951/55505472888/" title="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8184.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55505472888_d7e6db50be_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8184.jpg" /></a></p> <p>View to the east coast near Moutsouna</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ianw1951/">ianw1951</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianw1951/55504364092/" title="Greece, Naxos PXL_20260518_092702470.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55504364092_bd1575b3b2_m.jpg" width="240" height="181" alt="Greece, Naxos PXL_20260518_092702470.jpg" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/12326606@N03/">FotoShipshuck</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/12326606@N03/55505228718/" title="Panagia Kimisi Rising above the Ermoupoli Waterfront"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55505228718_ec73cd5d8a_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Panagia Kimisi Rising above the Ermoupoli Waterfront" /></a></p> <p>Greece 2026<br /> To Naxos: Syros - Dormition of the Virgin Mary (Panagia Kimisi)</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/12326606@N03/">FotoShipshuck</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/12326606@N03/55504126547/" title="Church of the Resurrection of Christ Up Close"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55504126547_fbb8837058_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Church of the Resurrection of Christ Up Close" /></a></p> <p>Greece 2026<br /> To Naxos: Syros - Anástasis (Church of the Resurrection of Christ)</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/sebastiagiralt/">Sebastià Giralt</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastiagiralt/55504942613/" title="Boxa / Boxing"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55504942613_f79bccf818_m.jpg" width="240" height="233" alt="Boxa / Boxing" /></a></p> <p>Museum of the History of the Ancient Olympic Games, Olympia / Museu de la Història dels antics Jocs Olímpics, Olímpia.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/sebastiagiralt/">Sebastià Giralt</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastiagiralt/55504871821/" title="Llançament de disc / Discus throw, kylix"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55504871821_212984f044_m.jpg" width="240" height="184" alt="Llançament de disc / Discus throw, kylix" /></a></p> <p>Museum of the History of the Ancient Olympic Games, Olympia / Museu de la Història dels antics Jocs Olímpics, Olímpia.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/sebastiagiralt/">Sebastià Giralt</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastiagiralt/55504846221/" title="Salt de llargada / Long jump"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55504846221_8285562d5e_m.jpg" width="240" height="228" alt="Salt de llargada / Long jump" /></a></p> <p>Museum of the History of the Ancient Olympic Games, Olympia / Museu de la Història dels antics Jocs Olímpics, Olímpia.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/nasa2explore/">NASA Johnson</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55504692679/" title="Athens International Airport, southeast of Athens, Greece"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55504692679_660cd3ce76_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Athens International Airport, southeast of Athens, Greece" /></a></p> <p>iss075e0074135 (Aug. 22, 2026) --- Athens International Airport, southeast of Athens, Greece, near the Aegean Sea, handled nearly 35 million passengers in 2025. The International Space Station was orbiting 261 miles above Europe when this photograph was taken. Credit: ESA/Sophie Adenot</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/linmtheu/">linmtheu</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/linmtheu/55503541492/" title="Avlemonas, Kythira"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55503541492_ef65f1c2c9_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="Avlemonas, Kythira" /></a></p>

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