The summer solstice occurs each year on June 21. It was celebrated by ancient cultures across the world, including the ...

Sports have brought communities together since the first Olympic Games in ancient Greece, and that tradition continues today ...

There's so much more to Greece than Athens, Santorini, and Mykonos. Here are the best places to visit, from historic cities ...

Greek Alpine skier AJ Ginnis, a world slalom silver medalist and former U.S. Ski Team member, will be the first torchbearer ...

Greece's top alpine skier will have the honour of initially carrying the flame in the 2026 Winter Olympics Lighting Ceremony.

From Stone Age astronomy to Viking law and Roman goddesses, cultures across time have honored the longest day of the year ...

It's the third week of June. Today, Anthony Doerr shares a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson called “Bed in Summer.” Stevenson was a much-loved Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, best known for ...

Elsewhere in Europe, tourism overcrowding has vexed Italy’s most popular sites including Venice, Rome, Capri and Verona, ...

Olympic history was written today in a highly symbolic and emotional ceremony at Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, to mark the handover of the presidency of ...

The top Greek Alpine skier will take part in the Flame Lighting Ceremony in Ancient Olympia in November as the first ...

As one of the most successful actresses in Hollywood, it felt written in the stars that Meryl Streep was destined for the big ...

The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...