Tag Archives: Athens

A group of protesters vandalized flower boxes newly installed in the center of Athens as part of the Great Walk project. They sprayed slogans on the boxes and even removed and overturned one. The tin planters were praised by the Athens Municipality as “anti-graffiti” and “up to one-tonne heavy” to …

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Ukrainian tourists have been stuck at the international airport of Athens and are not allowed to enter the country due to a pandemic ban for non-EU citizens. The group consists of 17 people, among them several children. In an angry post on social media, Greek-Ukrainian journalist Kostas Onisenko blamed both …

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Bulldozers entered the premises of the old Athens airport and started to demolish the buildings for the sake of ambitious Helliniko Project. All hurdlers have been removed but one crucial issue remains unsolved: the dozens of strays that have been living in the abandoned premises for years. They cannot be …

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Three metro stations in Athens metro are to open on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, the Urban Rail Transport SA (STASY) announced on Friday. The new stations will extend the blue line (Line 3) westward by 4 km, and they are named after the suburbs of Aghia Varvara, Koridallos and Nikea. …

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The Municipality of Athens invites the citizens to “adopt” a newly planted tree that is to undertake the cost for watering. The Municipality of Athens admitted in a statement the huge shortcomings it has in terms of watering the green spaces. And there is the solution! Roll the responsibility over …

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A group of some twenty people verbally attacked the Mayor of Athens, Costas Bakoyannis on Sunday afternoon and hurled coffee and water at him. Bakoyannis was attending an event at the church of Petros and Pavlos in Metaxourgeio district of the Greek capital and chatted with local residents. He left …

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Huge flower boxes made of metal sheet are boiling under the hot summer sun and plants are dying out already two days after they were installed to decorate one of the main avenues in Athens, Panepistimiou street. The installation of the flower boxes is the latest intervention in the context …

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Pepper robots will inform arriving passengers at the Athens international airport Elfetherios Venizelos about coronavirus protection measures at the airports and during flights. The application has been reportedly developed by the Mobile Technology company In a statement with the message “Your health is our priority”, Greece’s largest airport said that …

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A stunning sunset turned the sky in Athens into a glorious veil of orange on Monday. The amazing phenomenon occurred right after a heavy thunderstorm  in the West, while rain continued to pour down in the South, the East and the North. Athenians could not resist but taking pictures from …

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The Champions League and Europa League group draws will be held in Athens in October, government spokesperson Stelios Petsas announced on Wednesday. He added that the awards for top football players of the year would also take place there as well. “The UEFA executive committee unanimously decided that the group …

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Police buses arrived at Victoria Square in downtown Athens on Monday evening to transfer recognized refugees to accommodation centers. Hundreds of people, among them many children, arrived from the Moria camp on the island of Lesvos to Piraeus by ferry and from there to Athens on Thursday night. They have …

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The first flight from abroad after three months of lockdown landed with 160 on board at Macedonia airport in Thessaloniki from Munich, Germany, at 13:30 on Monday. The flight of the Aegean Airlines was welcomed with a water arch, symbolically, as this is usually the case during the reception of …

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The overambitious plan of Athens Municipality the Great Walk of Athens turned into the Great Traffic Jam on Monday morning, when local authorities decreased the six lanes of Panepistimiou Avenue into three for vehicles including public transport means like buses and trolley buses. Central roads in downtown Athens but also …

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Greece’s international airports in Athens and Thessaloniki are lifting  some restrictions for incoming international flights on Monday, June 15, 2020, with specific health safety protocols in place on the ground. Specifically, as of Monday, Athens International Airport (which continued to receive international flights from specific countries during the last three …

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More than 1,000 people gathered on Wednesday night at a well-known beach bar in Alimos suburb located in the Athens Riviera. The people crowded without keeping social distancing, danced, drunk and flirted under the sound of loud music and the smoke of fireworks. It was the first party of the …

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The Great Walk of Athens, the project that overhauls the city center “to encourage on-foot exploration by tourists” – as it is official said – has been pilot tested on Thursday. The testing affected the several streets including the avenues of Vassilissis Olgas and Irodou Attikou, where the first zones …

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Greek police has detained a woman on Thursday morning as the main suspect for the acid attack against a 34-year-old woman in Kallithea suburb of southern Athens on May 20. The suspect, a woman aged 35, is being held at the offices of Athens’ Security Subdivision and is being questioned …

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Initially slated to resume service to Athens in early July from its Chicago hub, American Airlines has announced it will cancel all of July’s flights and resume service to the Greek capital on August 5. In a company statement, American Airlines admitted that although domestic travel is slowly bouncing back …

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Fixed taxi fares to and from the airports of Athens, Thessaloniki and Kavala to the corresponding city centers are now reduced, in line with broader cuts in public transport fares introduced on June 1, the Transport Ministry announced on Friday. In Attica, taxi rides from or to the Athens International …

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Students organization, citizens, leftist parties and collectives, some 3,000 people marched through from Syntagma Square in downtown Athens and to the US Embassy on Wednesday afternoon to express solidarity with protesters in USA and demand justice for George Floyd. The main slogans to be heard in this anti-racism, anti-fascist rally …

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