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37 Insiders Guide to Greece

Travel with Rick Steves

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The Importance of Ancient Delphi

There is a school for guides. It's for twenty-and-a-half years, where they teach you history and lots of different things. So you then get the license and you are able to travel around the country with lots of different people - interpreting your own land history. And is your specialty Delphi or all of Greece? I think it's Delphi. That's your hometown. Yeah. According to our myths, it was Zeus, the father of God and mankind, who wanted to know where the center of the world was. He left two eagles fly from the two opposite poles of the universe and they met above Delphi. But talking about the center, what they

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