For two weeks I will be trading my daily view of glass and steel skyscrapers …

 

 

… to one dominated by low-rise whitewashed buildings with blue shutters …

 

 

… and traditional Cycladic architecture exemplified by the Cavo Tagoo Hotel …

 

 

… and the Paraportiani Church, both in Mykonos

 

 

Instead of seeing scores of skyscrapers stretching across the horizon, I will see skylines punctuated by dozens of blue- and red-domed churches …

 

 

 … or columns and stone walls that still stand on the sites of ancient cities, like these Delos island ruins dating from around the 2nd Century B.C.

 

 

And in Athens, I’ll see a mix of old and new, where the beautiful contemporary architecture of the fabulous Acropolis Museum …

 

 

… accommodates and celebrates the city’s vast rich heritage