Persephone is a tour guide in Greece, but perhaps not the type people are used to. Billed as the world’s first robot tour guide inside a cave, Persephone has been welcoming visitors since mid-July to the Alistrati Cave in northern Greece, 135 kilometers (84 miles) northeast of the city of Thessaloniki. The multilingual robot covers [...]
A special Air Force flight carried 200.000 AstraZeneca Covid -19 vaccines from Athens to Tripoli, on Tuesday 17th August. An official ceremony was organized at the airport of Tripoli, where the Libyan deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, Omar Mohammed Saleh, thanked Ioannis Smyrlis, secretary general of International Economic Relations of the Greek ministry of Foreign [...]
Greece, Italy, Spain, Malta and Cyprus have asked for an emergency meeting of the EU’s Home Affairs Council to prepare the European Union for new waves of refugees fleeing Afghanistan. The Greek minister of Migration and Asylum, Notis Mitarachi, talking on public broadcaster ERT, on Tuesday, said that Greece is not willing to become an [...]
by Symela Touchtidou, @stouchtidou The Cultural Routes of Europe are an outstanding example of successfully endorsing sustainability into a tourism project. One of the most innovative initiatives by the Council of Europe, Cultural Routes were launched in 1987 to demonstrate how heritage and cultures of different and distant regions of Europe contribute to a shared [...]
Donald Kagan, a prominent classical scholar, contentious defender of traditional education and architect of neo-conservative foreign policy, has died at age 89. Kagan, a professor emeritus at Yale University and father of historians Robert and Frederick Kagan, died Aug. 6 at a retirement home in Washington, D.C. Donald Kagan was a Lithuanian native, raised in [...]
The capital of Greece is working on plans to become more sustainable, at least in tourism. The City of Athens and the Athens Development and Destination Management Agency (ADDMA) have commissioned an assessment of Athens as a sustainable tourism destination in partnership with the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC). The restoration plan for Lycabettus Hill, [...]
by Nick Papandreou A recent outbreak of men killing their wives or girlfriends in Greece has brought to the fore the issue of violence against women. Although the press is generally accurate in its presentation of the facts, in some cases major news outlets seem to perpetuate the very stereotypes we are supposed to fight. [...]
The massive wildfires that ravaged parts of Central and South Greece (in Evia, Attica and Peloponnese) are gradually put under control. The extent of damage is heartbreaking. The European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) data shows that around 65,000 hectares of Greek forest have been burnt so far this year. Half of these are in [...]
The great archaeologist and philhellene, professor Stephen G. Miller has died, aged 79. In 1973, Professor Miller has been appointed Director of Excavations at the site of Ancient Nemea under the auspices of the University of California at Berkeley. As Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 1982-1987 and leader of [...]
A large crowd cheered as the members of the men’s water polo team of Greece arrived at the Athens International Airport wearing the silver Olympic medals on their chests, Wednesday noon. The Greek team made history at the Tokyo Olympics as it won its first ever Olympic medal. Its previous best finish was fourth in [...]
