The picturesque town of Nafplio, in the northeastern Peloponnese, is preparing to host the eighth Mediterranean Yacht Show from April 29 through May 3.
The historic Ideal cinema is to get a new lease on life as its operation will be entrusted to an internationally renowned company active in the field of entertainment, according to Greek hospitality business Mitsis Hotels, which has been granted the building that houses it.
Antiquities found during the construction of the metro system in the northern port city of Thessaloniki are being put back into place following their controversial extraction for the needs of the much-delayed project about a year ago.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and his new Cyprus counterpart Constantinos Kombos during a press conference in Athens Thursday.
The first organized effort of the Greek state in space technology is now a reality. Greece will build a significant number of small satellites, each as big as a washing machine, and the countdown to their deployment has already started.
Humanitarian aid for the victims of the catastrophic earthquake in Turkey is loaded onto a plane at Athens International Airport on Thursday, after Turkey activated the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.
Several Orthodox churches were badly damaged, such as the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas in Iskenderun, historically known as Alexandretta, in the Hatay province of southeastern Turkey, after the huge 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
The closure of major highways on Monday and Sunday decided by the traffic police due to bad weather was justified, concessionaire representatives told Kathimerini, as experience shows few drivers are able to put chains on their tires, increasing the risk of accidents.
Upgrading the dense, occasionally appalling, urban fabric of Athens with its mazes of gray, multistory concrete blocks and bare party walls standing even next to world-famous archaeological sites, is no doubt a daunting task – albeit one that is exigently called for.
Rental rates have taken off in Attica in the last six years: They have increased by 35%, having recorded a significant rally from 2017 until the end of 2022, and are now very close to the historic high levels of 2009.
The Hellenic Parliament honored the memory of the victims of the Holocaust ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday evening by displaying the slogan “We remember” on its facade with a photograph of prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp.
Waves crash against a sea wall during a windy day in the southern Athens district of Flisvos.
The earthquakes in recent months in Evia, Halkidiki, Lesvos, the southern Peloponnese, Crete and the memories evoked of past catastrophic temblors have brought to the fore not only the need to further strengthen seismic protection, but also the importance of early intervention and rescue efforts.
For more than two months, the crews of the Municipality of Athens cleaned walls and painted shutters in the historic commercial center in order to erase the graffiti that for many years was the permanent decor.
A recently repatriated 4th century BC Attic pedimented grave stele made of Pentelic marble and engraved with the name “Epicrates,” is presented at the Epigraphic Museum in Athens on Tuesday.
The downtown Athens house where Maria Callas spent her youth, from 1937 to 1945, will be restored and turned into an opera academy dedicated to the legendary Greek soprano.
In 2015, Yusra and Sarah Mardini, two sisters fleeing war-torn Syria, had to swim for their lives reaching Lesvos after their inflatable dinghy broke down in the middle of the Aegean Sea.
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