NIKOS VATOPOULOS

Picking up the pace

Agreeing to the term for the sake of convenience, no matter how much it may irk certain circles, Greece is a “brand” with a solid international reputation.

Rhodes National Theater turning over a new page

Restoring the long-neglected National Theater of Rhodes is one of the top priorities in the capital of the southeastern Aegean island.

26.07.2023 / 13:38

Effort to save Athens’ oldest Byzantine church

For the first time in 40 years, efforts are under way to restore and promote the Holy Church of Agios Nicholas Rangavas, Athens’ oldest Byzantine church.

09.07.2023 / 23:08

Surge of construction could transform city center

Construction activity in the center of Athens is booming, signaling a positive outlook for the Greek capital and raising expectations for its future.

24.04.2023 / 04:00

Greece’s great fortifications in new album

The Greek National Tourism Organization’s (EOT) return to publishing was marked with a new coffee-table book on the castles of Greece.

05.12.2022 / 08:08

Athens and the residential challenge

Athens’ future as an attractive and sustainable city will depend, no doubt, on a variety of factors – some constant, some impossible to predict. One of its biggest challenges, however, lies in attracting new residents back into its most central neighborhoods; the sailing appears to be anything but smooth, and obstacles – big and small – abound.

22.11.2022 / 22:23

Staring the truth of Athens in the face

Coming out of the Poreia Theater in downtown Athens and still under the spell of the excellent production of Ibsen’s “Dollhouse” directed by Dimitris Tarlow, I felt like making the walk to the nearest metro station. It was just after 9.30 p.m. (it was an afternoon performance) and the first few minutes of my stroll […]

05.08.2022 / 21:35

Piraeus’ dismal image

Among all the good and positive things that have been done to improve the country’s major gateways, making them more efficient and more attractive, the port of Piraeus continues to stand as a glaring exception.

20.07.2022 / 21:22

The age of banners

Beyond personal opinions, beyond individual life choices, beyond the wonderful condition of being complex, contradictory and fluid beings, it seems that in our times, what is important is the banner that we will hasten to unfurl and the camp that we will choose to support on a whim.

18.07.2022 / 10:36

Managing a city’s historical legacy

Amid the controversy over the remodeling of Eleftherias (Freedom) Square in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Giorgos Ioannou’s short story “The Elimination of the Jews,” from the collection “Our Own Blood” (Kedros Editions, 1980), is a must.

23.06.2022 / 21:15

From the 60s, to the 90s, to the 2020s

The cycles of history remind us that everything has already been said, but also that everything has a way of actually happening.

06.06.2022 / 11:36

Is there a vision for Omonia?

Many wonder whether all the new investments in downtown Athens’ Omonia Square – those that have been completed and those yet to come – will have a beneficial impact on the area as a whole.

26.04.2022 / 14:49

Nicolas Melemis’ Athens, whence life springs forth

The city of Athens is home to a secret world, bristling on the slopes, in the clearings and in the hollows.

18.04.2022 / 12:40

Exhibition celebrating horses in ancient Athens drawing to a close

The exhibition “Hippos: The Horse in Ancient Athens” is a gift to us all. Housed in the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), the archaeological exhibition is one of high aesthetics, precision, economy and unexpected twists.

10.01.2022 / 17:19

Urban remnants of the refugees

Scattered in every Greek city are the remnants of buildings used to house refugees following the Asia Minor Campaign and the subsequent population exchange in 1923.