Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern ...

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life ...

This is the Medieval Wall System, or MWS — an enormous network of trenches, ramparts, and walled enclosures. The MWS once ...

Athens has been continuously inhabited since the mid-late Neolithic era, around 3000 BCE ... of remnants of the city’s fifth-century BCE walls, which once enveloped the Acropolis, the Agora ...

As once-grubby districts such as Piraeus ... Athens’ Kolonaki district delivers a mega dose of romance. At the wildly beating heart of this elegant district – and just around the corner ...

Athens is surrounded by sea, which offers us a great variety of seafood and fish that skilled cooks and chefs turn into delicately creative or simply flavor-packed dishes. From Piraeus to the ...

In a nutshell, rebetiko is the folk music of the Greek underground, a rebellious urban blues, with the bouzouki as its main instrument, which developed in the 1920s around the ports of Piraeus and ...

When we last visited Piraeus Tower on the Greek capital's coast in 2022 for our trip to explore the thriving Athens architecture and culture ... director of the major event and founder of A-COLD-WALL* ...

She first guided me around the front yard ... traces of the site’s history. Athens has always been surrounded by walls, some of which extended down to Piraeus, a port southwest of the city.

in the south area and in a space between the wall and the rock. During archaeological expeditions and alterations to the Acropolis in the nineteenth century, the entire sculpture complex was found ...

The climate crisis and civil protection ministry has warned of a very high risk of fires in the Attica region around Athens ... in at the nearby port of Piraeus.