Rhigas of Velestino (1757-1798) is one of the great national heroes of modern Greece, for it was he who some thirty years before the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821 first conceived the possibility of a full-scale national revolution to free Greece from the domination of its Ottoman overlords....
Greece, with its varied seascapes and its ever-changing mountains in kaleidoscopic proximity, has a diversity of landscape unmatched anywhere in the world....