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Open-top jeeps and motor-bikes pull up outside this vast bar-nightclub, with white leather armchairs on three levels and industrial air conditioning to keep the atmosphere just right.

The museum, not yet completed, is being built over a late-Roman and early Byzantine settlement. The site is packed with houses and at least one fountain and reservoir, rare in the parched city. A walkway through the site and glass floors in the museum will allow visitors to see all angles of it, a fascinating juxtaposition to the earlier archaeological finds within the museum. (see New Acropolis Museum)

This all-glass $100 million showpiece, designed by internationally renowned architect Bernard Tschumi and opening in 2007, is meant to give a fitting home to Greece’s greatest treasures: the marble sculptures that once adorned the Acropolis, especially the mighty Parthenon. (Until the New Museum opens, these sculptures will still be housed in the small on-site Acropolis museum.) (see New Acropolis Museum, Archaeological Sites - New Acropolis Museum and Museums - New Acropolis Museum)

Scheduled to open in 2007, this beautifully designed museum is being built partly to give a fitting new home to the famed marble sculptures of the Acropolis, and partly as a political gambit to force Britain to return the Parthenon marbles, which currently reside in the British Museum. (see Museum of Greek Musical Instruments)

Millions have been drawn to the strange, joyous, bittersweet spirit of modern Greece as depicted in Kazantzakis’ most famous work, Zorba the Greek . Darker in mood is the Last Temptation of Christ and best of all is his audacious continuation of the fundamental Greek tale: The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel .

Smack in the centre of town, this hotel has big, beautiful designer rooms with marble bathrooms, massage showers, Bulgari toiletries, a famously elegant lobby and a 24-hour business centre. Rooms on the eighth and ninth floors have great views of the Acropolis.

This collection of coinage is housed in the mansion of Heinrich Schliemann, discoverer of the Mycenae treasure.

This tiny atmospheric house by the sea serves up far superior fresh grilled fish than any you’ll find in Corinth.