Bavaria

An ancient sword unearthed in Germany was found "still gleaming" at the time of discovery despite its 3000 years of age. 

The well-known animal rights’ organization PETA has recently demanded that a Bavarian town in Germany stop using donkeys during a religious and folkloric pageant held every year. The town of Oberammergau in the southern German state of Bavaria organizes an extremely...

Over the last several years, Greek construction companies have steadily, and significantly, increased their share of the market in the construction sector in Germany. When the financial crisis hit the country of Greece hard in the early 2010s, most of the...

European Council President Donald Tusk said on Sunday that the debate on Greece is not only economic but also moral, French newspaper Le Monde reported in an article titled “Ukraine and Greece on the G7 agenda.” Speaking during a joint...

The Mayor and citizens of Kirchseeon in Germany joined together to support the owners of a Greek restaurant who have been receiving threatening racist letters and phone calls. Athos restaurant is located in Kirchseeon, a town 35 kilometers outside Munich....

A Literature Night devoted to Nikos Kazantzakis will be held on November 28, 2013 at 8pm at Lenbach-Künstlerhaus, Lenbachplatz 8, situated in the heart of Bavaria, in Munich. Nikos Kazantzakis is the most translated Greek author. The event’s main...

The scale of Greece's crushing economic crisis and unrelenting austerity measures is showing in how many people are fleeing the country in search of work and a better life elsewhere, particularly Germany. The number of Greek immigrants to Germany soared...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he was looking forward to a "new start" in Greece's relations with the conservative German state of Bavaria, one of his country's harshest critics, ahead of his visit there on Dec. 9. Samaras' trip...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is set to visit the southern German state of Bavaria, the stronghold of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria party that has been strident in its criticism of Greece, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported...

While Greece's historical tendency to high-indebtedness is notorious, with its first recorded default in the fourth century BC and more in the late 19th and early 20th century, it is less well known that Germans have come to Athens'...