A guide to discovering Athens off the beaten path and some of the sweetest spots beyond Athens
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The cultural organization of the city of Athens has announced the performance schedule for the first four months of 2008 for their new “multi-space” in Neos Kosmos. The new cultural venue opened in November and promises to be a must visit on the agenda of anyone visiting Athens. The Neos Kosmos Cultural Center, or “Multi-venue” as it is [...]
A special treat for young and old alike, this working museum, slightly off the beaten path yet walking distance from the Thissio metro station, brings together some 900 displays - characters and sets designed by Christos, Giorgos and Sotiris Haridimos, a popular troupe of puppeteers - as well as the work of students who participated [...]
Looking for a venue to experience authentic live Greek music while you are in Athens? The Phillipos Nakos Conservatory, conveniently located within easy reach of Syntagma Square, hosts free (or cheap) concerts on a regular basis. With so many of Greece’s top musicians having either studied or taught at this internationally known music school, it is [...]
Traveling with children should be a fun experience, but all too often parents forget that kids don’t always like the same things we like, or that they don’t always move at the same pace as the grown-ups move. There’s alot of archeology in Greece, and you have traveled far to see it. But to your [...]
Looking for a venue to experience authentic live Greek music while you are in Athens? The Phillipos Nakos Conservatory, conveniently located within easy reach of Syntagma Square, hosts free concerts on a regular basis. This is a great place to expland your Greek repertoire beyond Never on Sunday and Zorba the Greek!
January events at the Conservatory, [...]
So here you are, three days before New Years, having traveled a great distance to visit Greece, and you’re searching the Internet because you’ve just learned that everything will be closed on New Year’s Day? Yes, the rumors are true, the gates to the archeological sites will be closed, and since it is an official [...]
So you are off to Athens, where, along with visiting the ancient sites, you’ll probably spend some time exploring the National Archeological Museum. It has quite a large collection, and while most visitors only spend an hour or so viewing the highlights and your traveling teens may roll their eyes at yet another museum and [...]
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