National Geographic Magazine ranked Sifnos in the top ten of the most prefered global destinations, among other famous holiday hot spots such as the Bahamas, Seychelles, French Polynesia, the Netherlands Antilles and other exotic islands.
Read more...The “independent” revealed the best and worst places to be a woman in the world; and Greece came first as the best place to give birth
Read more...The tourism campaign «Up Greek Tourism», which began on February 15 and will last until the first week of March, aims to support Greek Tourism.
Read more...The Non Governmental Organization Medicins du Monde together with Atenistas – an open community of citizens of Athens - have set one target for these Christmas: No child without a warm glass of milk!
Read more...Starting today through December 18, a Christmas Book Fest will take place at the Konstantinos Kavafis Building of the City of Athens Technopolis.
Read more...In the past it was always people in the far end of the world that needed our help.
Read more...A rare Greek coin will be auctioned on January 4 and is expected to reach record price. The dekadrachm of Akragas, one of only 12 examples known to exist, was minted in Sicily and dates to 409-406 BC.
Read more...The city of Thessaloniki has emerged as the winner in the competition for European Youth Capital for the year 2014.
Read more...Christmas is almost here and Athens is preparing to light up for the most wonderful time of the year, despite the difficult circumstances that Greeks have been facing as of late in their everyday life.
Read more...It’s time YOU participated in a global discussion about the future of the country; upload your video and share your idea answering this question: If you had the power to change something in the country what would it be?
Read more...The Thessaloniki Food Festival closes this year’s session with a Map of Flavours expo this weekend. The wine and spirit expo, which has reached its 9th year, will take place at the port’s Warehouse C and feature the best of Northern Greek wines production.
Read more...Commencing this year’s Christmas festivities, Thessaloniki’s X-mas Magic City opens its doors on December 1 and will carry on the X-mas spirit till January 8.
Read more...The famous Brussels landmark, the tiny Manneken Pis statue, will be dressed in a Greek traditional costume as part of the Plaisirs d’ Hiver 2011 Christmas events in the city between late November and New Year's Day.
Read more...Do you know any Greek American young leaders who strive for excellence in everything they do and at the same time are dedicated to making the world around them a better place?
Read more...Thessaloniki Port was awarded the second prize in the 2011 competition held by the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO). The ESPO awards are granted based on the Societal Integration of Ports.
Read more...The 27th Philoxenia International Tourism Exhibition opens its doors today (November 18) at the Thessaloniki International Exhibition Centre, running until November 21.
Read more...Today, Greece is commemorating the 38th anniversary since the November 17 student uprising at the National Technical University of Athens (Polytechnic School) against the military junta that ruled the country from 1967 to 1974.
Read more...Minister of Culture & Tourism Pavlos Yeroulanos attended London’s World Travel Market (November 7 to 10) and addressed the ministers summit themed on How Tourism Can Prosper in Times of Uncertainty.
Read more...2011 has been designated by the European Commission as the Year of Volunteering. Athens is currently the host of a meeting on Voluntarism, with the participation of two hundred European Organizations
Read more...November 1 has been designated as Hellenic Organ Donor Day. During recent years, organ donation rates have increased significantly in Greece, contends the Hellenic National Transplant Organization
Read more...Presenter and former BBC bard Charlie Ottley is the face of UK’s Travel Channel show Flavours Of..., now in its seventh season.
Read more...There is a unique group in the city called the Athens Strollers (SAS). As its name suggests, it is a walking club, set up by Nigel Copage in 2000.
Read more...Lambrinidis extended his condolences and the Greek people’s sympathy to those afflicted by the disaster.
Read more...The awarding by President Barack Obama to two Greek women professors who teach at Universities in the U.S, with the Presidential PECASE Award brings our country in the best possible way at the forefront of international public opinion.
Read more...City of Athens Mayor George Kaminis announced an upcoming pilot scheme to rent public bicycles in the historic centre of Athens, with depots on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, at Thissio and the Athens Cathedral.
Read more...City of Athens Mayor George Kaminis announced an upcoming pilot scheme to rent public bicycles in the historic centre of Athens, with depots on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, at Thissio and the Athens Cathedral.
Read more...Competitiveness and Shipping Minister Mihalis Chryssohoidis urged French businesses to invest in Greece.
Read more...Dr. Panagiotis Karkatsoulis has been selected to receive the 2012 International Public Administration Award from the American Society for Public Administration.
Read more...A Greek from Germany is claiming, as an analgesic to our pain, the prize of the entrepreneur of the year. And not in Greece but in Germany.
Read more...The Hellenic Cultural Centre in Paris is hosting an exhibition titled Hellenic pottery, an art constantly renovated.
Read more...The Australian magazine Gourmet Traveller is devoting its latest issue (October 2011) to Greece.
Read more...Kastellorizo, Symi, Halki, Tilos and Nisyros islands, all situated in the southeast of the Aegean Sea, close to Rhodes, are barely discovered by the broader public, even the Greek one.
Read more...Environment, Energy and Climate Change Minister George Papaconstantinou inaugurated yesterday an ELPEDISON natural gas-powered electricity production plant at Thisvi, in the region of Viotia.
Read more...Τhe world’s largest photovoltaic (PV) power plant operating at an airport was officially launched at Athens International Airport (AIA) yesterday.
Read more...The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has agreed to return three ancient marble artifacts from its collections to Greece, according to a Culture and Tourism ministry announcement, on September 22.
Read more...His All Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visited the Pindus National Park (also known as Valia Calda), northwestern Greece, on September 24.
Read more...Located in the northwestern Pindos mountain range, Valia Calda or "warm valley" is one of Greece’s most pristine and beautiful mountain regions.
Read more...The European Parliament gave its consent to the Agreement on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Prespa Park Area,
Read more...In its August selection of top hotel bars, Athens Hilton Rooftop Galaxy Bar is recommended for its 'relaxed, cosmopolitan atmosphere and majestic views
Read more...Tourism and technology will be the discussion topics during an event celebrating the establishment of the Greek chapter of the International Federation for IT in Travel and Tourism (IFITT).
Read more...The cabinet laid out yesterday new measures which will ensure that fiscal targets set for 2011 and 2012 will be met and that the Medium Term Fiscal Strategy Framework will be fully implemented through 2014.
Read more...Greeks in the Far Orient, is a 698-page volume written by Professor Anastasios M. Tamis, containing 420 unpublished photographs, depicting Greek immigration and settlement in the Far East.
Read more...The 3rd edition of Fistiki Festival is currently running on the Saronic island of Aegina until September 18.
Read more...Environment, Energy and Climate Change Minister George Papaconstantinou was in Berlin yesterday, where he met with government officials as well as representatives of the country's Federation of Industries.
Read more...The 76th Thessaloniki International Fair opens its doors to the public tomorrow (10.9) running through September 18. This year’s event focuses on three aspects,
Read more...Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos presented yesterday, a stolen Rubens painting recovered by Greek police.
Read more...The son of famous French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Pierre-Yves Cousteau paid tribute to his father by placing a memorial plaque in the bottom of the sea of Santorini Island,
Read more...Greece unveiled an ambitious plan for the development of solar energy systems, with investment reaching about €20 billion.
Read more...Greece unveiled an ambitious plan for the development of solar energy systems, with investment reaching about €20 billion.
Read more...The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) launched its new website on August 1. With a totally renewed design and software system created exclusively by the Ministry’s personnel,
Read more...Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Dollis departed for Tripoli, Libya yesterday accompanied by a team of Foreign Ministry personnel.
Read more...A TV drama imagining Atlantis’s catastrophic end was broadcast by BBC in May 2011. Using visual effects, similar to the film "300," Atlantis was filmed entirely in a studio,
Read more...The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) ranked 18th in the Euro Research Ranking List, published by the European Commission, for the year 2010.
Read more...The Greek tourism sector is expected to exceed the target of 10% annual increase this year, as data from the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) confirm a 10 to 12 % increase in both arrivals and revenues.
Read more...Leonidas Kyrkos, a veteran leftist politician and one of Greece’s most respected political figures, passed away on August 28 at the age of 87
Read more...The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on August 23 that Greece has recognised Libya’s National Transitional Council as the legal representative of the Libyan people.
Read more...Students from the Master’s programme in strategic communications from Columbia University conducted a research on Italy, Spain and Greece, seen as tourist destinations.
Zagori is an area of great natural beauty and unique architecture in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus in Northwestern Greece. The area is of about 1.000 square kilometers and contains 46 villages. Zagoria villages is called by Greeks “Zagorochoria” meaning the villages behind the mountain.
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In 1989, Professor of Byzantine Studies, Helen Ahrweiler is appointed Chairman of the Cultural Centre Pompidou in Paris