santorini

The dead body of a foreign woman was found by tourists visiting a church in Oia, in the island of Santorini, Greece. Police was immediately called to the scene and confirmed that the woman's body was decomposing. Preliminary investigation revealed personal documents and...

Travel + Leisure, a New York-based monthly magazine with 4.8 million readers worldwide, voted Santorini in the southern Aegean Sea, Greece, as the World's Best Island for 2014. The Greek island gained the first place with a score of 89.98 leaving...

Stores will be open in several tourist areas across Greece on Sundays, following a controversial government decision allowing stores to remain open all 52 Sundays, especially in large cities and tourist areas, as part of a pilot program. The city centers...

The Federation of Greek Private Employees (OYIE) has announced a 24-hour strike on Sunday, July 13, in response to the opening of stores on Sundays in ten regions of Greece. The Federation of Greek Private Employees, the National Confederation of Hellenic Commerce (ESEE)...

Sea cruise passengers dropped by 3.7% to 4.6 million in 2013, a survey by Infobank Hellastat revealed on Tuesday. The survey showed that sea cruise revenues were reduced by 2.3% to 574 million euros in 2013, from 588 million euros in 2012 and...

Meet Culture hosted its first Guqin Concert in Athens, Greece, on July 5. Another Guqin concert was also hosted by the same organization on the Greek island of Santorini on July 3. Guqin, with a history of over 3,000 years, represents China’s...

The city centres of Greece's two largest cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, will be among the seven Greek regions where shops will be allowed to open on Sundays, on a pilot basis, according to a Development Ministry decision signed on...

A Piraeus Appeals Court on Friday issued its ruling for the case of the cruise ship 'Sea Diamond,' which sank near the island of Santorini, Greece in 2007. The court ruled that the ship had been seaworthy and found the ships's captain...

When I meet fellow travellers for a beer in other European countries and tell them that Greece is the perfect budget travel destination in Europe, many people don't believe me. Most of them assume that because it is in the eurozone,...

A team of researchers from universities in the U.S. and Greece has conducted a study on how feral cats affect the Aegean wall lizards living in the Greek Cyclades. In their paper "Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences" they describe...