Athens

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to visit Greece during the second week of January. Merkel will be in the Greek capital Athens on a two-day official visit on January 10 and 11, meeting with the Greek President Prokopios...

Greece foresees an even greater number of tourist arrivals from China in 2019, on top of the huge number of tourists already counted in the first eight months of this year, which represented a 22 percent increase over last...

The Costas Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology in Athens was nominated as the  "European Museum of 2019" by the European Museum Forum (EMF) on Thursday. The results of the prestigious competition will be announced in May of 2019. The Kostas Kotsanas...

Residents of the infamous Athens district of Exarcheia published an angry open letter on Wednesday which describes the climate of lawlessness which prevails in their neighborhood. The letter says that Exarcheia has become a "dark zone of Athens", as radical leftist...

As Athens prepares to welcome the first government-funded mosque in the city in March, 2019, the search for an imam has begun. The Education Ministry’s committee for the new mosque announced on Monday that Muslims who legally reside in Attica...

A white Christmas this year in Athens? It could happen. The National Observatory of Athens has just published new meteorological data about the times Athens experienced white Christmases. Its findings show that despite being a rare phenomenon, Athenians could definitely once...

"New Democracy will not ratify the Prespa agreement, not now, not in the next parliament, not ever," Kyriakos Mitsotakis said, addressing his party on Friday evening. "Greece is at the most crucial turning point in its history," said ND leader...

A 48-year-old Greek man was found dead at dawn on Thursday in the area of ​​Moschato, Attica. Earlier today, another man was shot in the head at a coffee shop in Omonoia Square. According to police, the man in Moschato...

This Christmastime, Stavros Niarchos Park in Athens is full of light and sound, thanks to a series of interactive installations forming a magical winter wonderland. Four of these installations are being presented for the first time in Greece, while three...

A photography exhibition opens on Wednesday in the Greek capital, with the rare black and white photos shot by the famous photographer Alexander Lamont Henderson being exhibited for the first time to an Athenian audience. Handerson visited Athens in 1904 and...