The death of former Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou on November 1, 1968, became the crucible for Greece’s first major act of defiance against the military junta. This event allowed an estimated 300,000 Greeks to pour into the streets and...
Alois Brunner, one of the most ruthless figures of the Holocaust and a key collaborator of Adolf Eichmann, was directly responsible for the systematic deportation and murder of tens of thousands of Jews across Europe, with his actions in...
According to the legend, the Pleiad known as Maia gave birth to Zeus' son Hermes in a cave near the lake Dasios on Mount Ziria near the village of Trikala.
Also known as Mount Kyllini or Mount Cyllene, this mountain...
In the ancient city of Orraon or Horreum in Epirus, Greece, one can still see the best preserved ancient houses from the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
Four well-preserved buildings of the late Classical period, namely three private houses and a...
Lake Doxa, located in the lesser-known corner of Corinthia on the Peloponnese, is a place of astounding beauty that has been dubbed "the Switzerland of Greece."
Nestled in the triangular-shaped Feneos Valley—bordering Achaia and Arcadia—the lake is surrounded by mountainous...
The untimely death of Alexander the Great on June 10, 323 B.C. in Babylon has long been a topic of hot debate by historians.
The leading theories as to what killed the 33-year-old warrior—infection, alcoholism, or murder—still don't explain the...
The Greek town of Santa, (Dumanli in Turkish), situated in Pontus, has been a ghost town suffering neglect ever since the Greeks were forced to flee their ancestral homes in the exchange of populations with Turkey in 1923.
Santa, surrounded...
An electric car that was built on Greece's island of Syros in the 1970s was one of the world's first mass-produced electric cars.
Decades before Elon Musk’s Tesla, the Enfield 8000, built at Neorio, Syros, was the brainchild of the...
The disaster involving the sinking of the ferry boat Express Samina on September 26, 2000, off the coast of Paros which claimed the lives of eighty-one people still haunts Greece.
The ferry remains at the bottom of the Aegean Sea...
Porto Hydra Village, located in the Peloponnese, is a majestic place, a hidden paradise, and two hours away from Athens by car. Some call it Greece's Miami; others call it Little Venice.
Situated quite close to the port town of...
