The chestnut season is celebrated every October in many regions across Greece with special events organized to promote the chestnut's nutritional value.     In antiquity, the chestnut tree was regarded in Greece as the tree of Zeus. Mount Olympus, home of the gods of the ancient Greeks, was said to have had an abundance of ...

Aegean genie                           The magic of Greek Macedonia lives through its ancient history, its seductive coastline and a very well-kept secret – its rapidly expanding wine industry. I was halfway up Mount Olympus when I saw it: an immense pine tree whose gnarled trunk was so wide that three people would have had to link hands to encircle ...