After robots were used to check the state of the pylons submerged 65 meters below sea level and alpinists completed their annual overhaul last week, a team of divers will be deployed on the massive maintenance project of the Rio-Antirrio bridge, which turns 20 next month.
Eleni Varvitsioti, the Financial Times correspondent for Greece and Cyprus, joins Thanos Davelis to look into the rise of the Athens Riviera and explore how major investments and projects along the Athenian coastline are poised to transform it, marking a new chapter for the Greek capital.
Applications for participation in the Kalypsi accommodation program can be submitted by the owners of residences located within the Municipality of Athens, according to the relevant call from the Ministry of Social Cohesion and the Family.
A 1,213-meter long pipeline is being constructed using a tunnel boring machine, along with eight underground tanks (5 meters in width and 12 meters in depth) as part of efforts to prevent flooding in the suburb of Nea Filadelfia in western Athens.
Sani Development and Tourism Company SA, the highest bidder for the development of the Sani-Kassandra property on the Halkidiki peninsula, signed the agreement for the development of the area assessed at 8.6 million euros, the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED), a member company of Growthfund, the National Fund of Greece, said on Tuesday. Sani’s winning bid had been announced in January.
The first operation to Mount Olympus took place earlier this month and it involved airlifting photovoltaic panels, prefabricated roofing sections, and bags of sand and bricks to the Giosos Apostolidis and Christos Kakalos refuges, at altitudes of 2,710 meters and 2,660 meters respectively.
Authorities have ordered the demolition of an illegal deck built by a watersports center on the shores of Lake Ziros in Preveza, northwestern Greece, it was reported on Monday.
Tenders with gray areas, problematic procedures that lead to delays, contracts that run up against the Court of Auditors, bodies that do not plan their needs in time, even when they have been known for years, are taking a toll on the daily life of citizens.
Thousands of high-school students had to suffer through June’s early heatwave with no air conditioning or fans as they sat the nationwide university entrance exams this week.
The European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) has sent the various agencies responsible for Greece’s rail network urgent recommendations for improving safety standards and protocols in the wake of the deadly train crash in Tempe.
All three lanes of the east-bound carriageway on the Athens-Corinth highway were given back to motorists heading for the capital on Sunday afternoon to facilitate voters returning from their native towns and villages to their place of residence.
The municipal authority on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes has ordered the shutdown of a beach bar in the Santa Marina area by June 20 after inspections uncovered a multitude of zoning violations, including the fact that the business has been illegally built in an archaeological site.
The cost of rebuilding a region in central Greece after last year’s destructive floods, which killed 17 people, will reach 3.5 billion euros, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Tuesday.
The contract for the project “Construction of Reservoir at Agiokampos-Livadotopos Site” in Larissa, with a budget of 19.1 million euros, was signed in the presence of Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Christos Staikouras, on Saturday.
Authorities in Larissa, Central Greece, are launching an ambitious urban regeneration project on Monday that is centered around an initiative to connect 16 historical monuments and landmarks across the city center.
Strong investment interest has been officially expressed for the majority stake in Lavrio Port Authority.
