Athens

The "bright sounds" of Lena Platonos' music, a magical moon and mirrored reflections, will help dispel the darkness for Athenians during the longest night of the year this Thursday, December 21, at the Temple of Olympian Zeus. Courtesy of the...

This photograph of a storm drain on an Athens street, has left many Greeks scratching their heads. Apparently, someone in Ilioupoli had the bright idea of building a small wall around the drain, blocking water from draining away. Social media users...

The photograph of a middle-aged woman kicking a young Roma girl playing the accordion on the foothills of the Acropolis, made headlines in Greece back in 2013. The incident, described as a racist assault, was captured on camera by Dimitris...

The Christmas season officially kicked off in Athens on Tuesday after city mayor Giorgos Kaminis lit up the Christmas tree in Syntagma square, shortly after 7pm. "Christmas and New Years are days of joy and hope. It is an opportunity...

  Every night, Athens changes outfit. While daylight in town usually brings a dose of culture, art, and archeological sites, after sunset the atmosphere is very different. They say that crisis can have two different outcomes. It either crushes people’s...

  One of the best things to do while visiting Greece is to jump on a ferry-boat and visit the islands. If you are short of time, however, it can be difficult to spend many hours sailing; which is why...

Sporadic clashes between anarchists and the police broke out in central Athens on the occasion of the nine year-anniversary since the killing of high-school student Alexis Grigoropoulos by a policeman. A few hundred students, among them dozens of black-clad youths,...

More than 220 events have been planned in the City of Athens for the 2017 holiday season, starting with the lighting of the Christmas tree in Syntagma Square, which is to take place on December 12 at 19:00. Athens Mayor...

Vandals defaced the Holocuast Memorial in Athens commemorating the more than 60,000 Greek Jews who were murdered during World War II. Pictures from the small park overlooking the Keramikos archeological site where the Memorial is based show some of the...

More than 130 kilos of cocaine was found in a luxury apartment in Varkiza, southern Athens, by the Drug Enforcement Department of Attica's Security Directorate on Sunday. Police say that one foreign national has been arrested in the drug haul...