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Diving into Greece’s First Underwater Museum A national marine park protects wildlife and now offers tours of “the Parthenon of shipwrecks” off the island of Alonissos. | By Maria Atmatzidou
Greece | POSTED ON: December 11, 2020
At Greece’s new underwater museum, scheduled to open officially in June 2021, divers will be able to explore an ancient shipwreck and its bounty of wine jars in the Aegean Sea. Photo by: Timo Dersch
“Greece, always in season” declared the sun-soaked nation’s tourist campaign last January. It was a marketing slogan backed by truth; in 2019 some 34 million visitors were drawn here. But then the COVID-19 pandemic arrived and decimated the tourism industry.