The Russian research team behind the creation of the Sputnik coronavirus team were in Rethymno,…
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Experience ‘village life’ in traditional Cretan villas. Aspros Potamos is known to be the most ancient settlement in…
Artichokes are a 3,000-year-old detox secret, highly prized over the centuries for its potent medicinal properties. The Ancient Greeks valued this rare, edible blossom that it was known as ‘food for the Gods’ and reserved for the aristocratic alone. Modern research confirms just how right ancient healers were about the medicinal powers of this thorny, armoured vegetable with the sweet, sensual heart.
Stefanos Tsitsipas will not play in this weekends Davis Cup in Crete due to a…
During the Nazi German invasion and subsequent occupation of Greece during World War II, they…
Greece is a forever-favorite destination of Travel and Leisure readers, and they often turn to…
A Greek Canadian couple have been arrested on the island of Crete after they were…
With a Greek name “Elia Vouvon” (Greek Ελιά Βουβών), the Monumental Olive Tree of Vouves…
With predictions that “around 30 percent of Greece could be threatened with desertification” over the next few decades, scientists have developed an innovative algorithm tool for drought assessment and forecasting that will help to facilitate and prioritise measures designed to help mitigate Greece’s worst future water shortages.
Nikolas Theodorou is a chess player who is constantly surprising people with his success. This…
The body of the late composer Mikis Theodorakis, whose music came to define Greece and…
Twenty-five people went to a wedding party in Crete with the same COVID-19 vaccination certificate,…
A English family accidentally transported a Mediterranean house gecko 2,500 miles away from its home…
Hundreds of people poured in to the chapel of Athens Metropolitan Cathedral on Monday afternoon, …
An unprecedented incident occurred in Crete on an Aegean aircraft operating the Chania to Athens…
One of Crete’s greatest cultural exports, Antonis Xylouris (aka Psarantonis) born on this day, 6 September 1937 is a Greek composer, singer and performer of lyra, the bowed string instrument of Crete and most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra.
Μikis Theodorakis’ remains will lie in state for three days at the Athens Metropolitan Cathedral…
Reasons to visit Greece in September There is no denying summer is a beautiful time…
A 62-year-old doctor, who was hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of the Venizelio Hospital…
Sea turtles caused terror for swimmers at the Port of Hersonissos in Crete. Because these…