Celebrations

Thessaloniki's PAOK football team won their match against Levadiakos on Sunday evening, securing first place in Greece's Superleague. With a winning score of (5-0), PAOK became Greece's football champion for the first time in 34 years, sparking waves of enthusiasm...

Despite heavy downpours, thousands of people attended the celebrations of the opening ceremony of the world-famous Patras Carnival on Saturday night. The third largest city in Greece has a rich history of celebrating the annual Carnival season going back to...

Iranians, Afghans and Kurdish refugees living in the makeshift camp of Hellinikon, southern Athens, celebrated Nowruz (the Iranian New Year) 1396 (2017). The day, celebrated across cultures and national borders in western and central Asia, the Middle East and the...

Roads will close and traffic will be diverted in Athens and Piraeus on October 28, to make way for the parades commemorating the national Oxi Day, Attica police said. In Athens, traffic will stop from 9 a.m. until the end...

Celebrations commemorating the Pancyprian Gymnasium’s 200th anniversary took place in the presence of President Demetris Christofias, the Archbishop of Cyprus, the Mayor of Nicosia, and the head of teachers’ union OELMEK, among other dignitaries. All had high words of praise...