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Heartbreaking Video of Historic Monemvasia Castle in Flames

Firefighters battled for hours since Sunday to extinguish a fire that threatened the historic castle of Monemvasia in Lakonia, southern Greece. Photographs and video footage showed the flames engulfing much of the castle. According to reports, there was no major...

Foreign Investors Choose Traditional Houses in Greece

Over 600 million euros have been invested in Greek real estate by foreign investors in the 2013-2015 period, with the emphasis given to traditional summer houses, according to a Kathimerini report. Specifically, 186 million euros were invested in 2015, 250...

Canadian Newspaper Pays Tribute to Mani and Monemvasia

Canadian newspaper Ottawa Citizen published an extensive article on April 25, on the Greek regions of Mani and Monemvasia, noting that “Greece is more than islands.” The article pays tribute to the wild scenery and the beauty of Mani, Peloponnese....

Canadian Newspaper Praises Greek Holiday Destinations

In a recent article published in Canadian newspaper “The Vancouver Sun,” Janice and George Mucalov describe their Aegean Sea cruise from Istanbul to Athens. Having visited the more popular destinations such as Mykonos and Santorini on a previous cruise, the two writers were able...

TEDxMonemvasia Event to Take Place on July 27

Distinguished personalities from the business and academic communities will address the first TEDxMonemvasia event to be held on July 27 in Monemvasia, southern Greece, seeking to inspire audiences with their ideas, achievements and vision. People who dared to create and...

Monemvasia Restoration Project

Monemvasia's unconquered Upper Town which hosted nobles and aristocrats during the Medieval period, is now ruined, dilapidated and covered with vegetation. However, the town is about to regain its lost glory after the restoration works that started recently. According to the...

Exploring Greece through the Peloponnese

Writer Elisabeth Herschbach takes us on a journey around Peloponnese, the large underexpored peninsula that forms the southernmost part of mainland Greece, linked by a four-mile isthmus at Corinth.

New Tourism Promotion of The Peloponnese

The Region of the Peloponnese in order to support and promote its touristic product to new tourism markets, invited South-Korean journalists and tour operators, as well as the general director of Turkish Airlines in Greece, Gulay Ozturk, and the...

The A to Z List of Getting Married in Greece (part two)

Greece is not only its islands and beaches. In this second part of our investigation for the ideal wedding place, not that it is easy to deal with nervous brides and cater to their many demands, we tried to...