Today, the uninhabited islet, which has docking facilities and beaches, is one of Crete’s most popular tourist attractions. In addition to the abandoned leper colony and the fortress, Spinalonga is known for its small pebble beaches and shallow waters.
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Elena Kountoura, a prominent Greek politician, Member of the European Parliament, and former Minister of…
Over a hundred scientists and researchers, including doctors, nutritionists, agronomists, food technologists, and chemists, have…
Rakomelo is a local Greek beverage combining raki or tsipouro with honey and several spices, including…
Spinalonga island. It started as a Venetian fortress (1574-1715) and became an Ottoman colony (1715-1898)…
On December 16, 1940, at the height of the Greco-Italian War, Life placed an Evzone…
Cleopatra used it to infuse her bathwater, while Alexander the Great bathed his battle wounds with it and drank saffron tea. Saffron, the gold of Greek land as it is called, is considered the best quality worldwide.
On the 28th October 2018, Konstantinos Katsifas, a 35-year-old man belonging to the native Greek…
Don’t forget that clocks in Greece will return an hour on Sunday! Don’t forget that…
A study carried out by the Society for Headache and Migraine Patients has found that six out of ten Greeks still believe that the “mati” (evil eye) is the cause for their head pain.
The NATO Land Forces Command (LANDCOM) based in Izmir posted a congratulatory message to Turkey…
A forest blaze in Greece is the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU and…
Shortly after 11:00 in the morning, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed his Indian counterpart Narendra…
On August 20th, Greece’s navy will open more than 27 lighthouses to the public as…
Greece announced this week that it has increased the golden visa limit for property purchases.…
The fire that first broke out last Monday in Kallithea, Loutraki, and then spread to…
Although actors and directors are digging in deep and defending their blackwashing of Greek-Egyptian history…
The mother of a man murdered for the most trivial of reasons says the remorse…
Coming from a modest background, Pano Christou grew up in Tooting, South London – where…
Delaportas’s love for Greek cinema led him in 1989 to deal with discography and edit more than 300 records, saving and recording important soundtracks of great Greek composers.