Kolonaki

There are several famous neighborhoods and squares in Athens with strange names, whose origins even Athenians are unaware of. Plateia Amerikis, or America Square, is an iconic square in Athens. The busy square was named in 1927, as the municipal...

Open Air -- or "summer" cinemas as Greeks call them are a tradition across Greece with many of the most historic being in downtown Athens. 

The Radisson hotel brand is continuing its expansion into Greece, with two new hotels slated to open in the near future in Athens and Santorini.

Greek politicians condemned Thursday's bombing outside the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Dionysios in Kolonaki, central Athens, which slightly wounded a policeman and the caretaker of the church. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred early in the...

A policeman and a church employee were injured in a bomb blast that rocked the Athenian neighborhood of Kolonaki on Thursday. According to Skai TV, the explosion occurred outside the historic Agios Dionysios church at 07:10 in the morning, local time....

A Greek man embroiled in Thursday's brawl among football fans in the Kolonaki area of Athens faced a prosecutor on Friday. Police arrested 16 people after fighting broke out ahead of a UEFA Europa League clash between Dynamo Kiev and...

The writing could be on the wall for late-night music in Athens' hip Kolonaki district after a municipal move to curb noise. Athens Municipality wants cafes and bars to cut their music at midnight on weekdays and Sunday and at...

A publishing house and a diplomatic car were attacked in central Athens on Friday, according to local media reports. The incident on Friday afternoon took place in the capital's Kolonaki district. A group of around 20 masked people reportedly broke into...

Thrasyvoulos Lykourezos, the captain of the speedboat crash that killed four people on the island of Aegina, is staying at his luxury apartment in Kolonaki following a disagreement between the police investigator and prosecutor on whether he should be...

There is no shortage of cafeterias, or coffee shops, to choose from in Athens. You find them at the Acropolis Museum and around every corner of the city. Greeks have refined the art of "going for a coffee" to...