Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Culture
Α Thousand Tourists Watched The Change of The Presidential Guard in Athens
More than a thousand tourists watched the weekly "Grand Change" of the Presidential Guard in Athens on Sunday.
Greece
Outrage as Protester Steps on Athens' Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Social media users in Greece are expressing outrage over photos of a man stepping and apparently resting on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens' Syntagma Square.
According to reports, the culprit was participating in a demonstration against the...
Crime
Man Throws Fire Bomb at Presidential Guards in Front of Greek Parliament
An unknown man wearing a hood hurled a molotov cocktail at the presidential guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier monument early Wednesday morning.
The incident occurred shortly after 4 a.m. when a hooded black-clad man approached the sentry boxes...
Greece
Greek Independence Day Student Parade Without Barriers
The Greek Independence Day Student Parade took place in Syntagma, downtown Athens, on March 24, in the presence of Greek officials and a large crowd that was not held back by barriers, as it used to be in previous years....
Greece
Iron Fence Removed from Tomb of Unknown Soldier in Athens
Newly elected Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras proceeded with yet another symbolic move since he assumed office last Monday, by ordering the removal of the iron fence placed before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Syntagma Square in downtown...
Greece
New Greek PM Lays Flowers to Kessariani Memorial Instead of Unknown Soldier Tomb
To the Kessariani War Memorial, where he laid flowers in tribute to those executed by the Nazis during the country's 1941-1944 occupation, went the new Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, straight after his oath before the President of the Hellenic...
Europe
BBC’s Tribute to the Evzones
Mark Lowen from the BBC News visited Athens to make a tribute video to the Greek Presidential Guard. As he states in the video, Greece’s tradition wouldn’t be the same without its Presidential Guard. Sunday morning and the soldiers...