November 25, 2024
FEATURED, Lifestyle
The Christmas Tree of the City of Athens will be lit in Syntagma Square at 18:00 on Thursday, November 28, and launch a series of festive events in the Greek capital. The 20-metre tree arrived in Athens last week, late on Thursday night, and its decoration began immediately. The tree …
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April 17, 2024
environment, FEATURED
“Our Seas are not for Sale!” With this illuminated message on the Acropolis, the Sounion Cape and other locations, the Greek branch of Greenpeace sent a clear message to the country’s political leadership on the occasion of the “9th International Ocean Conference Our Ocean” currently taking place in Athens. Addressing …
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December 28, 2023
Arts, FEATURED
A three-day festive event called “Break the Pomegranate”, organized by the City of Athens, will be held at the Kipseli Municipal Market cultural space on December 29-31, 2023. Organized by the ‘Booktopia’ team, the event includes interactive happenings, book stalls, children’s activities, DJ sets, gifts for attendees and plenty of …
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August 7, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Cyclists from Greece, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, the UK and Italy started their “Bring the Parthenon Marbles back” campaign early Saturday morning, August 5 from the gate of the British Museum in London to Athens. This year’s cycling tour across Europe is part of the “London-Athens on 2 Wheels – …
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April 24, 2023
Archeology, Culture, Eat-Drink
Ancient Greek gastronomy and wine tasting is one of the events at the Acropolis Museum organized in collaboration with the Athens City Festival with the seocnd one being jazz music. Ancient diet & wine tasting at May 4, 2023 Jazz music at May 22, 2023 Ancient diet and wine tasting …
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March 30, 2023
Arts, Culture
Three of the historic cinemas in Athens will stage an event with free of charge entrance and film screens in the center of the city to raise awareness about their potential closing if the buildings’ owner decides to repurpose their properties, as the movie theaters’ owners say. The event is …
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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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