Thessaloniki

Giannis Paleochorinos is a Greek businessman who has, over the course of decades, become the man whose business supplies the most spectacular Christmas markets of the world with their most valuable element: lights. Christmas is the time of the year...

Greece's Central Archaeological Council (KAS) has given the green light for the removal of the many antiquities discovered during works for the construction of Thessaloniki's new metro system. After a marathon debate which lasted almost fourteen hours, the Council, which...

 Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city and the capital of Macedonia, donned its festive Christmas wear this past weekend and the opinions on this year's decorations are overwhelmingly positive. Locals as well as tourists have been enjoying the expanded, more stylish and brighter decorations...

A host of prominent Greek doctors and academics from all corners of the globe have gathered in Thessaloniki for the two-day Hellenic Diaspora Medical Forum which begins on Friday. It is an initiative of the Department of Medicine of the...

Authorities in Greece's great city of Thessaloniki announced on Thursday afternoon that they had finally found the Santa for whom they had been searching for weeks. Following weeks of casting, rehearsals, interviews and thorough ...Christmassy-type investigations, Greece's second-largest city has...

Thirty-three people were arrested and fifty-three more were detained during protests in the Athens district of Exarchia late on Sunday night, the anniversary of the November 17, 1973 student uprising at the Athens Polytechnic. Two police officers were injured during...

A blind Greek student graduated, tasing a degree in Physics -- with distinction -- from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki last week, despite being initially refused entry due to his disability. Argyris Koumtzis received his degree in a touching ceremony,...

The new, official commercial trademark which will be used for all products originating from Macedonia, Greece was presented during the Thessaloniki Summit on Thursday. This move is part of 2018's Prespa Agreement and the resulting implications it caused in commerce, as...

As a nationalist group staged a beer and pork barbecue outside the migrant camp of Diavata, near Thessaloniki, on Sunday to protest against increasing numbers of migrants, the leader of the Syrian community in the country said that refugees...

The President of the Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos officially opened the new wing of the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki on Sunday afternoon. In his remarks, President Pavlopoulos noted the need to remember that the Holocaust was the most atrocious crime against humanity...