It’s astounding the things they leave lying around in Greece. Our ship has docked in ­Lavrio, southeast of Athens, and I’ve ...
But one hidden gem remains largely overlooked by most travelers: the Corinth Canal ... the Isthmus of Corinth, a narrow landmass separating the Peloponnese peninsula from the Greek mainland.
Ponant and Smithsonian Journeys' cruise to Panama and Costa Rica infused leisure with education. Why travelers should choose this sustainable cruise.
Video screenshot/YouTube, Updrones The forgotten statue of Nero at the Isthmus of Corinth is a relic of the time the Roman emperor granted freedom to a part of ancient Greece. It is also a testament ...
Even though taking our campervan to Greece had long been an ambition ... enjoying glorious views across the isthmus. There are more precipitous drops at the other must-see Corinth attraction, the ...
Herodes Atticus' projects shaped 2nd-century Greece, blending rhetoric, philanthropy and architecture in a legacy of lasting impact.
A throat issue has forced promising mare Isthmus out of next Saturday’s Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes at Flemington, but a Royal Ascot trip in June remains an option. Isthmus competed in a pre ...
the canal opened in 1914 after years of construction that involved clearing out miles of malarial jungles, blasting through mountains and the erection of complex locks across the Isthmus of Panama.
For generations, outsiders had considered the narrow isthmus to be the perfect spot for a trans-oceanic canal that would shorten the sea voyage by thousands of miles. Ships would no longer need to ...
The Panama Canal is no stranger to global attention ... people of 97 nationalities that came together on this very small isthmus,” said Ana Elizabeth González, executive director and chief ...
To Roosevelt, he attributed the construction of the Panama Canal, a man-made waterway on the Panama Isthmus, linking the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. The canal was built mostly by the US ...