A passenger was injured after a plane window was shattered during a flight from Greece to Germany on Friday, forcing the aircraft to return to Thessaloniki.
The flight had departed Thessaloniki International Airport for Memmingen, around 100 kilometers (62 miles)...
Mermaids, folkloric creatures with the head and upper body of a woman and lower body of a fish, appear in many cultures across the world. Many have traced the contemporary conception of a mermaid to the ancient Greek figure...
Thessaloniki is indisputably number one when it comes to Greek sweets. Tsoureki, Bougatsa, Trigona Panoramatos and Syropiasta are the most famous of the northern city’s delectable sweet treats.
Legendary old pastry shops and famous desserts are a product of historical...
The Rotunda, built by Roman emperor Galerius in 306 AD, is the oldest of Thessaloniki's churches and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It was built at the turning point between the pagan and Christian world, probably as a temple for...
A severe fire that erupted in the Oraiokastro suburb of Thessaloniki late Saturday night has covered the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki in a toxic cloud of smoke. Authorities arrested a 76-year-old man on Sunday whose reckless driving allegedly...
A 72-year-old woman died on Wednesday from severe burns and respiratory complications following a series of suspected coordinated terror attacks targeting politicians from the governing New Democracy (ND) party in Thessaloniki.
The victim, identified as Vagia Nestora, was the mother...
A series of attacks using improvised incendiary bombs made of gas canisters were carried out in Thessaloniki in the early hours of Wednesday morning, targeting the entrances of apartment buildings linked to current or former members of the ruling...
Two people have died after a wildfire broke out on Tuesday afternoon in Derveni, within the Oreokastro municipality of Thessaloniki.
Authorities first discovered the body of a 66-year-old man outside his home near the village of Liti, before locating a...
A team at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has created Greece’s first national satellite-based forest monitoring system, giving authorities a new tool to track forest ecosystems, protected areas, biodiversity, and wildfire-related risks.
The system was developed through the research project...
If you know anything about Byzantine history and Thessaloniki, that date, August 1185, should mean something to you.
This date marks one of those moments when everything went spectacularly, tragically wrong for the empire's crown jewel city, the second-greatest after...
