Acropolis of Athens

A photograph of a female shop owner pushing a little Roma girl street musician on a pedestrian walkway under the Acropolis to send her away has taken off on the Internet and set Greek authorities to investigate the apparent...

According to an announcement made by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, on the occasion of the last full moon of the summer, more than 100 archeological sites, monuments and museums throughout Greece will open their doors on August...

Greek archaeologists staged a protest against 500 job losses, using the country’s past as symbols of the present which included a cardboard cut out of the Acropolis with a ‘for sale’ sign. Also on show was a cardboard cut out...

The Athens Open Air Film Festival returns this year with outdoor film screenings, events, concerts, master classes, and short films, all set against the backdrop of Attica's most distinctive monuments. The primary goal of this event, which will run from...

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy will be at the Cine Thisio on June 11 for the premiere of, Before Midnight. The film, directed by Richard Linklater, will open the 3rd Athens Open Air Film Festival. Don’t forget that Cine Thisio on...

Starting from the morning of May 21, the Athens Municipal Police will use fifteen bicycles for patrols in areas of major historical and environmental interest. The entrance to the Acropolis was the starting line for the fifteen policemen on bikes....

For a second consecutive year the Greek crew of Iason Fotopoulos and Aristotelis Georgiou topped the Historic Acropolis Rally after a tough three-day course across central Greece. Under the warm applause of motorsport fans on Sunday they raised the trophy...

The Austrian national daily newspaper Der Standard, in its insert Voyages, published a tribute to Greece, Three thousand  islands, sun and sea. The tribute begins, "Greece comes back as a favorite holiday destination and no wonder why, as the crystal...

Once it was the sacred hill of the Muses, across the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis. Today, it is  simply the place for the homeless. Now, that’s quite a Sacred place… However, a bourgeois society like the Greek one knows...

Greek police say a bomb has exploded near the Acropolis in central Athens, but it was not immediately clear what the target was and whether anybody has been hurt. The explosion outside a ship owner's house Nikos Tsakos occurred at...