Corfu

Greece is a country with rich tradition and the Greeks always make sure to honor those traditions, especially during religious celebrations. The following traditions are a glimpse into some of the original ways in which Greeks celebrate Easter..... The Rocket...

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...

Greek hoteliers and owners of tourist accommodation seem satisfied with this Easter's occupancy rates, which vary from 40 percent to 95 percent, overall a small increase in bookings on last year. However, the Greek islands seem to be seem to be getting slightly fewer...

The sixty-one marble sculptures that adorn the halls, the terraces and gardens of Achilleion palace on Corfu, Greece, were declared monuments by the Central Council of Modern Monuments. The majority of frescoes, busts and statues created by noted or unknown...

A survey shows that despite the increase of tourism in 2013, many hotel owners in Greece put their units up for sale at the end of the season. The survey by the newspaper Kathimerini, involving a leading real estate agency, found...

The latest developments in genetics, geriatrics and neuroscience - three modern and popular scientific fields - will be discussed by foreign and Greek scientists and researchers in the 1st GeNeDis World Conference to take place on the Ionian Sea...

The death of an 82-year-old woman from Corfu who lived in London for decades, brought an enormous inheritance to surface. However its recipients are missing. If no relatives of the deceased appear, in order to collect the inheritance, then...

A British couple who have exchanged wedding vows 61 times around the world, have chosen Corfu in Greece for their 62nd wedding ceremony. Alex Pelling and Lisa Grant from Hull in England have been traveling the world and tying the...

Bruce Willis is another acknowledged Hollywood star who could not resist the beauty of Greece and decided to make investments in the country. Reports said that tough-guy Willis has bought land in Kavos on the island of Corfu. The famous...

Chinese and Russian investors are showing increased interest in acquiring properties in Greece, mostly in Athens, as well as the islands of Rhodes, Crete and Corfu, according to a report by real estate agency Danos & Associates-BNP Paribas on...