Work is under way to clean the underground portion of the Kifissos riverbed in Athens for the first time in at least 20 years.
CITY LIFE
The Athens municipal authority has approved the construction license that gives the green light for work to begin on a new soccer stadium for the Greek capital’s biggest club, Panathinaikos.
You could cut the tension with a knife on Friday morning at the Panellinion, located on the corner of Solonos and Mavromichali in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia: The chessboards were out at the kafeneio, with pawns, rooks and castles positioned for battle.
The Environment Ministry has granted listed status to five lovely examples of eclectic residential architecture from the 1920s on a small street in the apartment block-packed central Athens district of Kypseli.
A detached house in the northern suburb of Athens, surrounded by pine trees. This has been the dream for Athenians for years, spurring a wave of intra-city migration of the middle classes, who were looking for better living conditions than those that had prevailed in the saturated center of the capital.
A bold yet simple proposal for radically improving the quality of life in downtown Athens has been on Athens Mayor Haris Doukas’ desk for the past few days, awaiting his perusal. What it suggests, in short, is to partially rid central Syntagma Square from the bane of traffic. As anyone who […]
The new pedestrian-bicycle path along the so-called Athenian Riviera will be ready by the end of 2025.
For thousands of drivers and pedestrians traveling daily on Alexandras Avenue near the Panathinaikos soccer stadium, the view of the refugee apartment blocks has remained largely unchanged for at least 40 years: faded ocher facades, rickety balconies, peeling walls, tattered curtains, scattered satellite dishes and political and soccer slogans. Few notice the four black, neatly arranged banners on the only apartment building (out of eight) facing the avenue.
From Tositsa Street in central Athens, the imposing building of the old aristocratic art nouveau hotel Acropol Palace can be seen in all its splendor.
It is evident that the wooden benches near the Arch of Hadrian, in the heart of Athens, are not suitable for resting.
The bland surroundings of the 2nd century Hadrian’s Arch in central Athens are not doing any justice to the monumental ancient gateway.
The creation of the Municipal Cleanliness Police to monitor the daily schedule for the collection of waste and the cleaning of the city was announced by local authorities on Monday.
Could Athens ever be included in a list of cities that offer a high quality of life for their residents?
As Greeks watch the Paris Olympics, their mind inevitably goes back 20 years to the Athens Games.
People take photographs of the ceremonial changing of the Presidential Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of Parliament on Tuesday night.
A veteran hotelier in Athens used to say, “Tourism is like a storm; for three years you might ride high on the waves and for the next two, you struggle to keep your head above water.”
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