Sunday March 2, 2008
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Zappeio - Children’s Carnival
Sunday of Carnival is dedicated to children with a big costume party at the Zappeio.
A huge tented train will be set up with activities for children of all ages, while outside the party continues with karaoke, a DJ and child’s maypole for children and families.
The [...]

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Visiting Athens the first two weeks of March? Check out the schedule below for the Carnivale happenings throughout the city of Athens!
Saturday, March 1 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
On Irakliodon Street, Thisseo
Athens Philharmonic Orchestra
The Athens Philharmonic Orchestra begins its musical journey through the winding streets of Plaka, spreading the spirit of Carnivale with Jazz [...]

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Monday March 10 is Clean Monday (Kathara Deftera)
Bring your kite to Philopappou Hill and join in the fun and children of all ages continue the Greek tradition of kite flying on Clean Monday. Bands will perform traditional Greek music on a specially created stage throughout the day. Lagana (traditional bread), olives and halva will be [...]

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The organizers of the Hellenic Festival, which includes the Athens Festival, a program of live music and theater in Athens and in several outdoor venues throughout Greece has announced that they will be announcing the program for 2008 at a press conference on Tuesday March 4, 2008.

There is nothing that compares to a musical performance at [...]

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Visitors to Athens cannot help but notice the large cranes perched next to the Acropolis, and you’ll be hard pressed for the next several months to capture a photo of the Acropolis without the crane somewhere in your photograph.  Fret not about this, instead consider that you are in Athens for a historical moment in [...]

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If you’ve ever been to a Greek restaurant outside of Greece, you are certainly familiar with the ubiquitous “Greek Village Salad”, aka “Village Salad”.
 
The ingredients never vary, whether you are dining in Chicago’s Greektown, New York’s Astoria, or Paris’ St. Michel, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, green peppers, feta topped with a few Kalamata olives. And of [...]

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Ever since my first trip to Athens in 1989 I have been fascinated by outdoor street markets.  Back then large chain supermarkets were non-existent in Greece, so each neighborhood had it’s own outdoor market day.  And though today there are plenty of big supermarkets, Greek owned chains like A B Vasilopoulos and Veropoulos, and even [...]

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This blog is about exploring true Athens and real Greece. Oftentimes we’ll visit places that may in fact be located within the most commonly touristed areas, but they don’t appear in most guidebooks and on most tourist maps of Greece. This section will include various maps with directions to specific places mentioned in our blog [...]

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The Hellenic Cosmos - The Foundation for the Hellenic World
254 Pireos Street
Tavros, Greece
212-254-0000

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Just 2 hours by car from Athens is a world full of history, nature, mountain ranges that hide villages where life moves at a different pace, beaches only locals know and fishing ports untouched by time and tourism.

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