Madonna may be making headlines, with reports placing the pop icon in Corfu for her birthday. Still, she is only the latest internationally famous visitor to choose Greece this summer.
From Hollywood actors and music stars to sporting legends, a...
The musical tradition of the Italian Greek populations of Southern Italy remains strong to this day, as do the variations of the language that has been spoken since the 8th century BCE.
The popular tarantella folk dance and the accompanying...
Pop icon Madonna is spending part of her summer in Greece, choosing the island of Corfu as her primary destination to celebrate her 68th birthday on Sunday, August 16.
After arriving via private jet, she settled into an ultra-luxury villa...
Italy has recovered three paintings worth more than $10 million that were stolen during a nighttime heist at a private museum near Parma, police said Friday.
The Carabinieri's art recovery unit said searches ordered by prosecutors led to the recovery...
Before his carefully selected timber transformed into elite classical instruments bound for concert halls across Slovenia, Germany, France, and Poland, Vassilis Vassiliadis was simply a boy discovering the magic of creation by crafting wooden bows, arrows, and handmade toys.
Four...
Across Greece, August 15 brings towns and villages to life with celebrations honoring the Dormition of the Virgin Mary. In the village of Oxylithos on the island of Evia, preparations begin long before the bells ring for one of...
Each year on August 15th, Greeks around the world celebrate “Summer Easter,” as the Dormition of the Virgin Mary is called in Greek popular tradition. On this day, the nation also honors those bearing Greece’s most popular female name,...
Michelangelo's David is a towering figure in art history. Yet this masterpiece embodies an underlying tension between established tradition and newfound knowledge. David represents both a humble biblical shepherd boy who became a king, and a Greek hero. This...
Greek filmmaker Konstantinos Mousoulis’ comedy Best Friends Forever is continuing its international journey, with the film selected to open the 31st Greek Film Festival in Australia following its Audience Award win at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival earlier...
Steve Reeves made his cinematic breakthrough in 1958, with the movie Hercules. By the late 1950s, the sword and sandals genre was already becoming popular, but Reeves was the first performer to fully embody the physique of ancient Greek...
In a heartwarming display of solidarity, humanity, and collective effort, the residents of Roussa—a small village in the Soufli municipality of Evros, Greece—joined forces for a truly special purpose: coming together to build a home from the ground up...
Giorgos Tsetis, a Greek engineer who built his fortune in health and wellness, is turning his AI investment gains into philanthropy, urging wealthy families to give back now instead of waiting.
Tsetis co-founded the hair growth brand Nutrafol and runs...
The distinctive sound of the bouzouki echoed through the Ancient Theatre of Heraclea Lyncestis in Bitola, North Macedonia, as a Greek ensemble from Thessaloniki brought songs spanning generations of Greek musical history to an audience of more than 1,000...
A tiny sea creature known as the immortal jellyfish appears to cheat death by reversing its own aging process, turning itself back into an earlier life stage whenever it is injured, starving, or under stress, researchers say.
The species, scientifically...
