Epirus

The town of Paramythia in Greece's Epirus region prepared and baked the largest melomakarono in Greece and probably in the entire world this weekend. Melomakarono is one of Greece's most popular traditional Christmas treats. The massive melomakarono was baked in a...

Most of the ski resorts and villages in northern Greece's mountainous regions woke up on Wednesday under a thick white blanket of fresh snow. Ski resorts and villages in the counties of Imathia, Florina, Kozani, and Grevena as well as...

The restoration of the historic bridge of Plaka, in northwestern Greece, which had collapsed due to heavy rain in 2015 is now almost finished. On Thursday, the last piece of rock was added by the reconstruction group that has been...

Experts recently announced that 2019 will be one of the best -- if not the best -- year in a decade in terms of the quality of Greek wines produced in the northern part of the country. As is widely known,...

A search-and-rescue team on Wednesday located the dead body of a 26-year-old British man who had been missing since last Sunday, when he went hiking in the Zagoria region in northwestern Greece. The body was found in a gorge...

Two major earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.3 and 4.9 on the Richter scale hit the Greek-Albanian border at 07:26  and 10:00 local time on Saturday morning (05:26, 08:00 GMT+1). Many smaller quakes have also been recorded. The epicenters of...

Four regions in Greece were included in the list of the poorest in Europe, according to a report from Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, which was published on Tuesday. East Macedonia-Thrace, Epirus, the North Aegean and West Macedonia all have...

Thousands of people turned up on Sunday at an indoor arena in Piraeus, south of Athens, to watch a spectacular display of Epirus culture. The annual gathering of the Panepirotic Association of Greece was a great opportunity for Epirotes to...

U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt,  has been visiting the alpine area of Epirus in north-western Greece highlighting the unexpected beauty of the mountains and the opportunities for skiing. Last week, the American diplomat visited Greece's "bear country" near the...

Zagorohoria, Metsovo, Tzoumerka, Drakolimni, Parga, Sivota, Bella Vraka, Acherontas estuary, Konitsa. Places of fantastic natural beauty, some of them so diverse that Epirus could be called the region of a thousand faces. Epirus is more beautiful that Scotland or France's...