There is something very intriguing in the fact that Sparta's most consequential king has largely been forgotten. While Leonidas and his three hundred men have been immortalized by Hollywood and popular imagination, Cleomenes I, the man who arguably did...
A Greek court has rejected Australia’s extradition request for James Dalamangas, whom New South Wales authorities want in connection with the 1999 murder of Greek-Australian George Giannopoulos at a Sydney nightclub.
The Patras Council of Appeals ruled on Wednesday that...
Prominent Greek criminal defense attorney Stavros Georgiou was found dead Tuesday night inside his law office in central Athens, prompting a major homicide investigation after police discovered what officials described as suspicious circumstances at the scene.
Georgiou's daughters reportedly went...
The ancient Greek city of Helike (Greek: Ἑλίκη), once a thriving capital in Achaea, was destroyed by a powerful earthquake and tsunami in 373 BC. Located on the southwest shore of the Gulf of Corinth, the city sank beneath...
Greece is more than sun and sea. It’s a trekking paradise waiting to be explored. From the rugged gorges of Crete to the lush ravines of mainland Epirus, Greece’s wild heart beats loudest where water and rock collide.
Smaller or...
Mount Athos, referred to in Greek as the "Holy Mountain", is one of the most important centers of the Christian Orthodox world.
Home to twenty monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, it is governed as...
Every year on July 20, Orthodox Christians in Greece and around the world celebrate the feast day of Prophet Elias (Profitis Ilias), one of the most important prophets in the Christian tradition. Across Greece, churches and small chapels dedicated...
Greece’s real estate market attracted €12.4 billion ($14.15 billion) in foreign investment between 2019 and 2025 according to data from the Bank of Greece. The figure represents a substantial increase compared with the amounts recorded in earlier years.
From 2002,...
The first Caretta caretta (loggerhead sea turtle) hatchlings of the season have begun emerging on Greek beaches, marking the start of a critical period for the endangered species.
Greece is home to the Mediterranean’s most important nesting grounds for loggerhead...
A relief exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece shows an ancient Greek youth practicing by balancing a football on his thigh in front of a small boy. This means that football, albeit in a primitive form,...
Delivery workers employed by Greece's two largest food delivery platforms, efood and Wolt, are staging a five-hour strike on Sunday evening, one of the busiest delivery nights of the year, to draw attention to workplace safety following the death...
