Great deals – last minute flights this september to Greece, Athens & Corfu Island, from Budapest, Hungary. Prices starting from €15 per person both ways.
This is a trip on your own. All reservations must be made by you. Places are limited and can run out quickly. Use the blue buttons to book.
BUDAPEST – ATHENS:
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Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world’s oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years[citation needed] and its earliest human presence started somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennium BC.[4]
Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A center for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato‘s Academy and Aristotle‘s Lyceum,[5][6] it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy,[7][8] largely because of its cultural and political impact on the European continent, and in particular the Romans.[9] In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Greece.
BUDAPEST – CORFU
Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands,[2] and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the northwestern frontier of Greece.[3] The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered by three municipalities with the islands of Othonoi, Ereikoussa and Mathraki.[4] The principal city of the island (pop. 32,095) is also named Corfu.[5] Corfu is home to the Ionian University.
Corfiotes have a long history of hospitality to foreign residents and visitors, typified in the 20th century by Gerald Durrell‘s childhood reminiscence My Family and Other Animals. The north east coast has largely been developed by a few British holiday companies, with large expensive holiday villas.[148] Package holiday resorts exist on the north, east and southwest coasts.
At the other end of the island, the southern resort of Kavos also provides tourist facilities.
St George South to the west boasts the largest sandy beach on the island coupled with a selection of all-inclusive package hotels and traditional corfiot villas and flats. The Korission lake nature reserve also provides a stopover for European birds migrating south.
Up until the early 20th century, it was mainly visited by the European royals and elites, including Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany and Empress Elisabeth of Austria; today it is also widely visited by middle class families (primarily from the UK, Scandinavia and Germany). With the advent of the jet airliner bringing these groups relatively affordable ‘package holidays’, Corfu was one of the primary destinations for this new form of mass tourism [149] It is still popular with the ultra-wealthy however, and in the island’s northeast the homeowners include members of the Rothschild family and Russian oligarchs.
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