Thessaloniki

The excavations are undertaken by the 9th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities and the 16th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classic Antiquities. According to the archaeological agencies, the subway digging takes place in areas that have seen little subsequent building activity,...

Four Russian tourists have died and 30 others were injured when a bus taking them to the airport overturned, Greek police said. The bus skidded off the road in the rain before dawn, 9.5 miles outside the northern city of...

Turkish Airlines launched a new initiative to promote the city of Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, to Turkish tourists by sending a 13-member mission to Ankara headed by Utku Yazan, Chairman of Turkish Airlines, along with members of Greek tourist...

This year's Thessaloniki International Fair, an annual event designed to promote Greek business and lure investors to Greece, opened with the cruel irony of visitors seeing a city in decline, with 30 percent of the shops downtown having closed...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said his two-year 11.5 billion euros of spending cuts contained unfair and painful decisions that were necessary to restore the country’s credibility and keep the country in the euro area. “The truth is Greece came...

Some 3,500 police will be deployed at the weekend in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki where unions are planning protests against a new round of austerity that is set to see pensions and some state salaries cut further. Police...

A year-long program of events to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the liberation of Thessaloniki and Western Macedonia was officially launched by Vassilios Tolios, the Consul-General of Greece in Sydney. He urged the community to support events to promote...

Tourist agents appear optimistic as the data regarding the tourist reservations for the first six months of the year are showing better than expected results, with 6,336,370 visitors recorded. Greek airlines released a report showing that losses compared to...

Athens and Thessaloniki ranked among cities with the biggest drops in office rents in the 12 months to March 2012, Kathimerini reported, citing a report by CBRE Group Inc. Office rents in Athens dropped 13.5 percent in the period, making...

According to National Geographic magazine, the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki is among the top international destinations that travellers should visit in 2013. The famous travel magazine, which has over eight million readers worldwide, is about to release its annual travel guide...