Peloponnese

The Nemean Games, Panhellenic festivals that were celebrated by the ancient Greeks as part of the cycle of games at Delphi, Isthmia, and Olympia, will be revived for the sixth time from June 10 through June 12, 2016. The site of the revival will be...

Konstantinos (Kostas) Kanakis, along with his wife Calliope, are the owners of a historic shop situated on the main road of Leonidio in Arcadia, Peloponnese, which is considered to be the oldest store in Greece, remaining on the same spot for...

Students from all over the world and of all ages will have the opportunity to attend the new School of Ancient Greek Athletics that will be established by the Society for the Revival of the Nemean Games in ancient Nemea. The Society...

New impressive findings have come to light in the archaeological excavations at the site of the Asklepieion in ancient Pheneos, in the Peloponnese, the Cultute ministry said on Wednesday. Among them are a pedestal on which originally stood two bronze...

A Greek bus driver in Greece has come under scrutiny for his decision to deny a ten-year old student on his bus following the end of the school day. Protothema reports that a family in Ancient Korinthos, Peloponnese claims the driver denied the...

Two Greek cities, that have always been a magnet for art and culture, were included on the list of the 25 cities with the greatest impact on the world. More specifically, the capital of Greece, Athens, ranked in first place...

After southern Peloponnese and Preveza suffered severe damages from thunderstorms earlier in the week, the island of Skopelos became a disaster area after the floods caused by thunderstorms late on Tuesday night. The continuous heavy rainfall turned the roads parallel...

Hazardous rainstorms on Monday throughout Greece, and particularly the area of Peloponnese, have caused two fatalities. A 73-year-old female was reportedly struck by lightning on the island of Salamina, which is close to Athens, capital.gr reports. The coroner's report ruled lighting as the...

The Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology-Speleology of southern Greece along with the University of Tübingen discovered an ancient elephant skeleton in the area of Arcadia, with preliminary estimations determining it to be from 300,000 to 600,000 B.C., the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reports. The bones were found at...

King Mohammed VI of Morocco and his wife Princess Lalla Salma travelled to Greece and spent about 5 million euros for their 7-day vacation in the Ilia region, on the western coast of Peloponnese. The King of Morocco arrived last Wednesday, accompanied by his wife, two children,...