December 30, 2022
Lifestyle, Society
The City of Athens is getting ready for the New Year’s Eve with a countdown spectacle at Syntagma Square and parties in the neighborhood of Thiseio and the Varvakeio meat market. Meanwhile, a countdown party will be held in the neighborhood of Thiseio, at the foot of the Acropolis, featuring …
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December 1, 2022
FEATURED, Lifestyle, Society
Greek capital Athens officially launched the holiday season on Thursday evening, when Mayor Kostas Bakoyiannis pressed the button to illuminate the Christmas Tree at Syntagma square. With the Christmas tree illumination Athens sent a message of peace, unity, solidarity and love everywhere in the world tonight. Music, light, colors and …
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September 20, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
After a two-year pause due to the pandemic conditions, the spectacular event “Volcanoes” returned to the island of Santorini. Using thousands of fireworks, the event “re-enacts” the volcano eruptions. Organized by the Municipality of Santorini, the Regional Unit of South Aegean and local organizations and bodies, “Volcanoes 2022” offered an …
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July 28, 2022
Arts, Culture
Stand-up comedy fans should save Sunday, July 31, for an event by the Athens English Comedy Club. On the rooftop of innovative cluster space The Cube, under the stars with a view of the Acropolis. Founded in 2019, the Athens English Comedy Club is the first and only purely English …
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July 6, 2022
Eat-Drink, Uncategorized
Taste of Athens 2022, a major gastronomic event, kicks off on Thursday and for four days visitors can enjoy dishes prepared by ten star chefs in the country. A rich music and fun parallel program will add to the experience, while there is also a special program for kids. 4 …
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December 23, 2021
Greece, Politics
Fun fact, public money and outrage: The Mayor of Athens will spend 217.000 euros for a 17 minutes long New Year Eve gig by Greek singer Sakis Rouvas.The event will take place without audience and in the parking area of Lycabettus hill off the center of the city. The decision …
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December 22, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
The municipality of Athens cancelled a Christmas Eve event on the city’s main Kotzia square due to the risk of Covid-19 infections. “With sense of responsibility and due to the increase of Covid-19 infections, the municipality of Athens decided the cancellation of the event Christmas Eve-The Night of the Wishes …
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April 14, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Strong reactions by local politicians and ordinary people on the island of Crete manage to cancel a despicable event by a paratroopers association that was planning to hold an event and “honor” the 80-year anniversary of the Nazi-German invasion of Crete. With posts on social media, the so-called European Paratroopers …
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May 29, 2020
Greece, Politics
The Greek government has condemned the fiestas Turkey is preparing on Friday, May 29, on the 567. anniversary of the Fall of Constantinople. One of the fiestas to take place in Istanbul tonight outside the former church and patriarchal cathedral of Greek Orthodoxy, the Hagia Sophia, a museum since 1932. …
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December 10, 2019
Social
The Metropolitan Community Clinic at Helliniko in Athens invites to the decoration of the Christmas Tree, an event aiming to build “the tallest Milk-Tree of Love and Solidarity.” The Milk Christmas Tree event is scheduled for Saturday, December 14, 2019. Guests are kindly requested to bring a special Christmas tree …
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August 26, 2018
Social
They were wearing white blouses and t-shirts and were holding flashlights. They wanted to symbolically light up the sky in the memory of the 96 people who lost their lives in the deadly wildfires of 23. July 2018. The event to commemorate the dead but also to honor those who …
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June 19, 2018
Archeology, Culture
The Ancient Theatre of Aptera in Chania on the island of Crete will revive its old days of glory after 17 centuries with a special performance: the dramatized narration of a rhapsody from Homer’s “Odyssey.” Actors Sofia Hill and Antonis Myriagos will performe in the company of musicians Giorgos Kaloudis …
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January 26, 2018
Greece, Politics
Mayor Manolis Vournous and the City Council of Chios unanimously declared officials of extreme-right Golden Dawn as “persona non gratae”. The local authorities have herewith expressed their opposition to a planned event organized by the Golden Dawn on the island. The event is on the Migration-Refugee Crisis and is scheduled …
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January 20, 2018
Archeology, Culture
Archaeologists called her Avgi – Dawn – because she lived at the dawn of today’s civilization. Last time anyone saw her face was nearly 9,000 years ago. She lived in Thessaly, Central Greece, at the end of the Mesolithic period around 7000 B.C. Greek and Swedish scientists reconstructed her face …
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December 27, 2017
Lifestyle
Santa does not bring presents only to humans. In Irakleio on the island of Crete, he entered the local aquarium and brought presents also to fish! Santa’s sleight is not being pulled by reindeer but by sea horses. You can meet diver Santa in CRETAquarium until 6th January 2018 – …
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November 29, 2017
Lifestyle
Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier wore a t-shirt with the Greek flag and threw an embroidered cape from a Tsolias* uniform over his shoulders to show his love for Greece. Gaultier came to Athens to support the Benaki Museum raising funds. “Through my collaboration with the Benaki Museum, I hope …
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July 4, 2017
Tourism
Do you want to be a rower on a ancient Greek trireme? The Hellenic Navy offers exactly this opportunity to the public, to anyone who wants to fulfill a hidden dream. Following the successful trips of the Trireme OLYMPIAS in summer 2016, the Greek Navy invites citizens to join voyages …
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June 25, 2017
Uncategorized
NBA All-Star player Giannis Antetokounmpo and his brother Thanasis appeared on the stage of the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens on Saturday in front of thousands of people. The Antetokounmpo brothers did not talk much about Basketball but they recalled the painful struggle in their early days in Greece where …
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January 20, 2017
Politics
The new US administration will go out there and help Greece. But not immediately after the 45th President Donald Trump will be sworn in on Friday. Not even on Saturday, Sunday or Monday. First thing the Trump administration will do is to make America great again. Then it will help …
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November 21, 2016
Very Mix
With telescopes set up in seven points in Athens, the National Geographic in cooperation with the Athens Observatory offer a unique opportunity for stargazers: the Observation Week of the Planet Mars”. The telescopes will be set in Zappeion in downtown Athens as well as in the south suburbs of Palio …
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