Mount Olympus National Park

Greece’s first national park, at Mount Olympus, the country’s highest mountain, is declared in 1938. Due to its situation, Olympus’s massif is home to unique flora and fauna. To date, over 17,000 plant species—which represent roughly a third of Greece’s flora—have been discovered there. The efforts of the environmental protection movement in the current era take up where ancient mythology left off: in the ancient world, Mount Olympus was considered to be home to the gods and the seat of Zeus. In 1981, the massif was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.