UNESCO

With a letter addressed to the Greek newspaper “Proto Thema,” the Turkish ambassador in Athens raised a question concerning the nationality of Karagkiozis, a famous character in Greek shadow theater. Citing the decisions of two international organizations which he...

  UNESCO Good Will Ambassador Marianna V. Vardinoyiannis has launched a new campaign with the title “Return (the marbles), Restore (Parthenon), Restart (History)” for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles. In a statement during a press conference held at the Acropolis...

The historic “Acropole Palace” hotel in downtown Athens will be ready to use again in 2015, after the end of its ongoing restoration, as Lina Mendoni, general secretary of the Greek Culture Ministry said in the Central Council for...

The winners of the Paris Marathon were for the first time offered symbolic olive wreaths from trees planted at the Tomb of Marathon. The 38th Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris was held on April 6. It is one of the...

Not since the late actress and Culture Minister Melina Mercouri; the eloquent writer and unbeatable debater Christopher Hitchens and his friend, Scottish Prof. Robert Browning - also dead - has Greece had, in actor-director-activist George Clooney, such an ambassador...

George Clooney, whose statement on the return of the Parthenon marbles to Greece has caused intense reactions in Britain, came back on the subject and released a statement arguing that he strongly believes in the things he said, while...

UNESCO is organizing a seven-day tribute, this week, to the beauty and unique culture of the Greek island of Syros in Athens, Greece. The neoclassical building of the Hellenic ICOMOS headquarters, will host an event that will acquaint people with...

The permanent delegation of Greece to UNESCO participated in the events for the commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, with the screening of Vassilis Loules’ film entitled “Kisses to the Children.” The film is a moving testimony of three...

After four years of national controversy concerning two 2,500 year-old Greek statues, Italy’s Minister of Culture has decided to put them on exhibit once more. The Riace Bronze statues are two life-like, magnificent Greek warriors of Magna Graecia, a Greek...

The President of the International Organization for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles –David Hill- spoke of the UK’s implacability on the matter of the Parthenon Sculptures’ return to Greece, in his article for the Australian newspaper The Sydney...