Athens

Factors resulting from the overall financial crisis, such as single property tax and the failure of owners to rent out their properties, have thrown real estate prices at historically low levels, resulting in a market that now presents great opportunities...

The first Pixathlon Athens starts in less than 24 hours! The competition that travels in different European cities every year is the place to be for everyone who enjoys a good click with their camera. The goal for the participants is...

Some of the biggest names in the international music industry are heading to Greece this summer. Here is a list with the biggest concerts and festivals set to take place in Athens and Thessalonik in 2014: Gogol Bordello, May 8. A Gypsy punk band known for...

Among the archive footage released when British Pathé put its entire back catalogue of vintage newsreels on YouTube last week was film dating back in 1944 of Greece’s liberation from Nazi occupation by British and ELAS (Greek People's Liberation Army) partisan troops. The first...

An impressive, interactive exhibition created by CERN, aiming to bring the public closer to the experiments of the large underground accelerator, will be hosted at the Eugenides Foundation from April 12 to May 31. The exhibition can be attended by...

Good Friday is an eminently mournful day that commemorates the Passion of Christ in all of Greece. Even the most remote churches honor the tradition of the epitaph filling the atmosphere with piety and devoutness. In every Greek city, village or...

A minor explosive device went off on Wednesday evening outside the northern Athens suburb residence of a former Defense Ministry official who has been convicted for a major corruption scandal, police said. The blast caused small material damage, but no...

On Wednesday morning, in Varvakios market, central Athens, Greece, ten unidentified women bought large quantities of meat and distributed them to their fellow citizens. It is estimated that the ten women spent almost 50,000 euros. The women arrived in Athens central...

Manolis Cucinkas is a 45-year-old Greek investor who moved from Athens to find investment opportunities in the Sudan. Back in Greece his family had been working in the bread and confectionary industry. When his father retired, Cucinkas took over the...

Clashes occurred in Athens today when police tried to evict a gathering of shop workers protesting Sunday opening hours. One protesters was injured in the incident, which occured on Ermou, a pedestrian street where protesters with banners gathered outside stores. Some 300 retail employees participated in the...