Greece
Education
Greek National Library Moves to Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center
After three long years of preparations, the hundreds of thousands of books and other items in the Greek National Library's collections, are making the journey to their new, ultra-modern home.
The Library will soon be housed in it's new premises...
Diaspora
National Library Re-branded Just in Time for Its New Home at SNFCC
The "new" National Library of Greece will soon become a reality as the open competition to visually rebrand the library has concluded and a winner was chosen and the institution will be moving to a new location at the...
Culture
Greece's National Library Prepares for Historic Move, Transition to New Era
The National Library of Greece is making a bet on its future. From the historic neoclassical building in the centre of Athens, one of an iconic ‘triplet’ of imposing public buildings erected by Theophil von Hansen and Ernst Ziller...
Culture
New National Library, Opera House Work Set
An ambitious private initiative to build a new national library and opera house on the site of a former horse-racing track in Palaio Faliro, southern Athens, is to get under way this month, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), which...
Culture
Lafcadio Hearn: The Greek National Poet of Japan
Lafcadio Hearn, a unique figure in international literature, began his life in Greece and spent the rest of his career in Japan.
Art
Athens Library Prepares New Wing Dedicated to Greek Freedom Fighter
The American School of Classical Studies in Athens is to open a new exhibition on Greek independence fighter and statesman Ioannis Makriyannis.
'Ioannis Makriyannis: Vital Expression' will be the inaugural exhibition of a new wing of the Gennadius Library.
The exhibition...
Diaspora
The Best Public Library in Greece
The Veria Public Library in northern Greece is a model library that serves 61% of the city's population and shows what can be done when the staff love their jobs.
Aspasia Tasiopoulou, the library's public relations manager, says the Veria...
Greece
Fix Building to Be Renovated in Order to House National Museum of Contemporary Art
The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) is being temporarily housed in the Athens Conservatory building until its permanent facilities at the former Fix building are completed.
The Fix building, designed by Greek architect Takis Zenetos (1926-1978), a student of...
Greece
National Garden of Athens Deemed Historical Landmark!
An oasis of green in the heart of bustling downtown Athens, the National[...]
Greece
Six Architectural Landmarks of Modern Athens Lost Forever
Some of Athens's architectural landmarks were destroyed in the post-World War II years to make way for modern buildings that epitomized the rapid economic development of the country.
Athens was the youngest capital city in Europe in the nineteenth century...
Greece
Seven Benefactors Who Shaped Modern Greece
Seven of the most important benefactors in Greece contributed massively to the birth of modern Greece after the fighting heroes kicked out the Ottomans through their generosity and philanthropy.
These men were industrialists, shipping magnates, and rich aristocrats, who built...
Greece
Lousios Gorge: A Hike in Arcadia, Greece
Lousios Gorge has been inhabited for centuries in Greece, mainly by hermits and monks who lived in caves. Two monasteries located near the gorge remain open to visitors: Philosophou and Timiou Prodromou (St. John the Baptist).
The historian Pausanias described...
Art
The Ancient Greek Art of Marble Sculpture Lives on Tinos Island
When one thinks of white, marble art and clear, cerulean waters of Tinos island, Greece comes to mind. The two are synonymous.
Greece
Ernst Ziller, The Architect Who Designed Modern Athens
German architect Ernst Ziller left his own eternal, and magnificent, imprint on Athens by designing some of the city's most iconic buildings.
Ancient Greece
Manuscript Reveals Battle Between Greeks and Goths at Thermopylae
An ancient manuscript that has recently come to light indicates that in 262 AD there was another battle at Thermopylae that essentially saved Greece from the Goths.
In 2007, Jana Grusková, PhD, of Masaryk University, discovered a manuscript fragment containing...