The celebrity traveller and BBC presenter Simon Reeve has been given permission by Greece’s Central Archaeological Council to shoot his new project at major archaeological sites around the country.

Cercis blooms in Olympia, Greece.
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The documentary series ‘Greece with Simon Reeve’ will be aired at the start of 2016 on the BBC. The archaeological sites he will visit include the Acropolis, Knossos, Delphi, Mycenae, Olympia and others. Read more: news.gtp.gr

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