Run Messinia, an ultramarathon race covering a distance of approximately 421km, will take place in…
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The underwater power supply interconnection between Crete and the Peloponnese, has been completed. According to…
Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) that is in a ruling coalition…
Aegean Airlines found a unique way to commemorate the Bicentennial of the Greek War of…
Six Greek hotels have been listed among the best in Europe by UK newspaper The Telegraph,…
British daily newspaper The Guardian recently published a list of their ’10 best crowd-free Greek…
President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou and president of the ‘Greece 2021’ Committee Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki visited…
On March 17, 1821, war was declared on the Turks by the Maniots at Areopoli,…
In almost every Greek city you will find ancient monuments, sculptures or building remains that are evidence of the grand historical past of the country. Many of these monuments are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, not just because of their majestic architecture or their antiquity, but also because of their contribution to modern civilization, society, art and sciences.
Discovered in 1967 by Nicholas Flemming and mapped in 1968 by a team of archaeologists…
In Greece we know our wine. Winemaking in Greece’s fertile lands dates back to over 4,000 years, with some of the currently most popular producing regions being Aegean Islands (namely Rhodes, Crete, Santorini, Lemnos, Samos), the Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Sterea Ellada, Epirus, Thessalia and Macedonia – more or less everywhere. Read on to learn about six of the best varieties and the top five wine bars in Athens according to our personal experience and research!
On this day February 3 in 1830 The London Protocol established the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire thereby concluding the Greek War of Independence.
“Ipapanti tou Sotiros” is one of the largest cathedrals in Messinia and celebrates its Feast…
Boats travelling between the gulfs of Corinth and the Saronic will not be able to…
Greek Metropolitan Ieronymos of Kalavryta and Aigialeia was fined €1,500 on Wednesday for conducting the…
Filled with stone mansions, lush gardens, picturesque alleys, and a lively square, the town of Vytina has been for many years now, one of the most popular mountain destinations in the Peloponnese and in Greece overall.
A 24-hour electrification test of the first submarine cable that will connect the island of…
On the early morning of December 13th, 1943, the people of Kalavryta, in the…
“My goal was to create a church that creates the illusion of motion. It feels like the Holy Spirit moves around its axis, God himself moves around its axis, as the church has no obvious front and back,” Greek architect Costas Papatheodorou said about his creation – the Orthodox church of Agia Fotini of Mantinea – which has become known as the second most mysterious church in the world.
600 members of the brutal ISIS terrorist organization are in Greece and dozens are in…