Kalavryta

The student parade for the anniversary and celebration of March 25th was concluded several minutes after noon. For another year, heavy police forces patrolled  the area, in order to carry out the parade safely and without any unexpected incidents. Before...

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Sunday referred at length to the issue of German war reparations and a forced occupation loan demanded by the Nazi administration, during his speech at an event in the town of...

Archbishop Ambrosios of Kalavryta created controversy after launching a verbal attack on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble over their harsh stance against Greece in the bailout negotiations. The archbishop is a supporter of new Prime Minister...

Greeks will fill up all popular holiday destinations this season, despite the economic crisis, according to an Imerisia newspaper report. The most popular winter and holiday destinations in Greece already show bookings exceeding 80 percent on average. Hoteliers estimate that...

Most of the popular winter resorts in Greece still have vacancies. Occupancy rates currently stand at between 70 and 90 percent for New Year’s Day, although last-minute bookings are expected in the next few days. As a result of the...

The local community of the region of Kalavryta, is shocked by the suicide of a 26- year-old man who was abandoned by his fiancée. According to information on  thebest.gr, the young man from Planitero visited the girl he was...

At the age of 105, "hi - tech" grandpa left his last breath. Social media users have been touched by the death of the eldest Facebook user, Leonidas Panoutsopoulos from Kalavryta. The news of his death spread sorrow in his...

Key rings featuring the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party are popular even in stores in the town of Kalavyrta, site of one of the worst Nazi atrocities of World War II, and where a memorial to the victims stands not...

Nikolaos Dertilis, the last junta leader, who died in prison without showing any remorse for his actions, including the execution of a 20-year-old man during a student uprising against the ruling military leaders in 1973, was buried in Athens...

The beginning of the end of the Ottoman Occupation of Greece in 1821, which gave birth to the modern Greek state, and the fall of Smyrna in Asia Minor a century later in 1922 were the bookends for revolutions...