• Athens is known as the oldest capital city in Europe and nearly half the population of Greece lives here
  • Greeks wave with the palm of their hand closed 
  • Greece’s official name is the Hellenic Republic 
  • Football is Greece’s most popular sport
  • The first Olympic games took place in 776 BC, and winners were awarded laurel wreathes (bet they’d have preferred gold medals!)
  • Feta is Greece’s national cheese and is made of goat’s milk
  • Greek children do not celebrate birthdays – they celebrate their ‘name day’ on the day of the Saint they were named after 
  • Crete is the biggest Greek Island
  • Five out of the seven ancient wonders of the world were in Greece, including the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Statue of Zeus 
  • The colour blue is said to ward off bad luck and is painted on many doors and windows
  • There are 6,000 Greek islands
  • The dolphin is Greece’s national animal
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