“It is like a small Benaki,” Delphi Mayor Thanasis Panayiotopoulos said referring to the emblematic Athenian museum when describing its lesser-known counterpart in Chrisso, one of the prettiest villages in the region of Fokida in the foothills of Mount Parnassos.
Culture Minister Lydia Koniordou has sent a letter to British counterpart Matt Hancock asking for an intensification of talks for the return to Greece of the Parthenon Marbles, which are housed at the British Museum.
Organized by the Schwarz Foundation, the festival features accomplished young musicians from all over the world in a promising musical program.
A total of 132 museums and archaeological sites across Greece will be open to the public with free admission for the full moon on the evening of Sunday, August 26.
Google celebrates the 105th anniversary of the first recorded ascent of Mount Olympus.
“It is like a small Benaki,” Delphi Mayor Thanasis Panayiotopoulos said referring to the emblematic Athenian museum when describing its lesser-known counterpart in Chrisso, one of the prettiest villages in the region of Fokida in the foothills of Mount Parnassos.
The historians of the future will have to carefully examine this new wave of interest in Athens – or is it love? The trend was perhaps sparked by the country’s financial crisis and the ensuing urban decay, but it cannot be denied that rejection is not the only reaction to the Greek capital.
The friendship and professional relationship between the acclaimed Lesvos-born art collector Teriade and celebrated French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is the focus of “The Decisive Moment.”
Best known here for his book “A Concise History of Greece,” Richard Clogg’s contribution to the anti-dictatorship movement, which he supported from both Athens and London, is not so well known in Greece.
A blood moon will dominate the sky across much of the world on Friday night when the Earth’s natural satellite moves into the shadow of our planet for the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century.
Greek archaeologists have discovered a virtually intact grave of an ancient noblewoman buried with her golden jewelry at a Roman burial monument in the island of Sikinos.
A road leads past a wind turbine stands on the Aegean island of Tilos. When the blades of the 800 kilowatt wind turbine start turning, Tilos will become the first island in the Mediterranean to run exclusively on wind and solar power, feeding the needs of its population of some 400 people in winter, and some 3000 in summer. [Iliana Mier/AP]