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National Technical University of Athens Wins Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra...
On June 1, the EU prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra was awarded. The ceremony took place in Lisbon, Portugal, with Greek-Cypriot Commissioner Androula Vassiliou announcing the six winners....
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Libération: ‘Melancholy’ in Downtown Athens
A Libération correspondent walked around the center of Athens, describing the financial situation of the stores in the Greek capital. The journalist writes that tourist shops selling mostly souvenirs...
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Guardian Photo Shows Greek Desperation
The photo of the day in the Feb. 6 edition of the British newspaper The Guardian captured the hard times in Greece, a gripping shot showing desperate hands reaching for free fruits and vegetables at a...
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Aegean Opens Wings to Budapest
Aegean Airlines have announced the launch of a direct flight from Athens to Budapest. The two capital cities have been reconnected by air months after Hungary’s national airline Malev went bust....
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BBC’s Tribute to the Evzones
Mark Lowen from the BBC News visited Athens to make a tribute video to the Greek Presidential Guard. As he states in the video, Greece’s tradition wouldn’t be the same without its Presidential Guard....
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Kefalogianni Met Visit Sweden Chief
The Greek Minister of Culture and Tourism, Olga Kefalogianni, visited Sweden and among others, met Thomas Bruhl, the chief of Visit Sweden, a Swedish tourist organization. They discussed about the...
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Shisha Drug Grows Popular in Debt-Stricken Athens
While the economic crisis is still taking its toll on Greece, the capital city of Athens is at the center of the whirlwind. Poverty and unemployment, hunger and homelessness have increased in Greece...
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New Bridge Between Turkey and Greece
Ankara and Athens have initiated efforts to build a new bridge between Turkey and Greece to ease traffic, Anatolia news agency reported quoting Turkish Deputy Minister of Customs and Trade, Fatih...
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Greece Freezes Layoffs For Summer
Τhe magazine Der Spiegel, describes the situation in Greece as a summer nightmare, “a play” being performed before millions of tourists. Angry protests, strikes, given the layoffs of thousands of...
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New Fage TV Spot Emphasises on Greek Heritage
While the Greek yoghurt boom is still here and many Greek and Greek-style yoghurt brands are flooding the market, Total Greek yoghurt maker Fage is launching a new British TV ad which will be aired for...
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Kalymnos Is The Island of Climbing
The most popular daily newspaper in Rome and central Italy, Il Messaggero, hosted an article dedicated to the Dodecanese island of Kalymnos, Greece, describing it as “the island of climbing.” “Just a...
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Maria Ekmekçioğlu’s Greek &Turkish Recipes
The chef Maria Ekmekçioğlu has co-written a book that includes Greek and Turkish recipes, entitled Bir o yaka Bir bu yaka, which means This side The other side, and was released in April in Turkey....
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Greek Judge Clears Pakistani Architect
The case against the British Pakistani design engineer Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh was dismissed for the second time; this time by a Greek judge. The Pakistani architect is accused of the collapse of the...
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The Greek “Pirates” of Electricity Power
“Pirates of the electricity” is the title of the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, referring to activists that take it upon themselves to reconnect the electricity supply for socially weak Greek...
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Turks Admired Athens “Through her Eyes”
Last Sunday, October the 27th a unique photo expo opened its gates to the public. The title of this exhibition is “Athens through my eyes.” The event took place at “And Hotel,” a hotel which is...
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Kefalogianni: “Greece a Destination of Great Hospitality”
“Except for the ten percent increase in the tourism sector for the year 2014, another positive fact is that every tourist who has visited Greece in the last few years has returned to his homeland with...
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BBC: Cine Thisio Among Top Ten in the World
“There are many outdoor movie theaters around the world but none of them are as spectacular as Cine Thisio in Athens, situated at the foothill of Acropolis with an amazing view of Parthenon,”...
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Athlete Asks for Support to Swim from Smyrna to Greece
Alper Sunaçoğlu, a veteran Turkish swimmer stated that he wants to swim from Smyrna to Athens in order to contribute to Greek-Turkish relations. However Sunaçoğlu didn’t receive the support he expected...
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Greek Films to be Presented in Rotterdam Film Festival
Three Greek films will be participating in the 43rd Rotterdam International Film Festival that will take place from January 22 to February 2, 2014. Spike Jonze’s new film, “Her” will open this year’s...
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Greece-based ‘Two Faces of January’ Premieres at Berlin Film Fest
“The Two Faces of January,” which was partially filmed in Athens and Crete during the summer/fall of 2012, had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival this past week. Based on a 1964 novel by...
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