Athens

A 4.3 earthquake hit near the resort town of Rafina, 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) east of Athens, on Thursday afternoon. The focal depth was at 6.8 kilometers (4.22 miles) down into the earth. The tremor was felt throughout Attica. There have been...

Per a decision that was announced to the public on Wednesday by Giorgos Dimopoulos, the deputy governor of the central part of Athens, the many boutiques and shops in the tourist areas of Monastiraki, Plaka and the Acropolis will...

A column of thick black smoke has covered Athens as a large fire broke out at a plastics recycling facility on Saturday morning. The fire broke at a facility in Metamorfosi, near the main Athens to Thessaloniki highway at 7...

The summer of 2020 is unlike any other summer in the whole world in many, many years. The coronavirus pandemic has changed everything, and seemingly nothing is as it was before. And Athens, like every major city across the...

Thousands of Athenians are deserting the Greek capital for their annual August holidays this weekend, despite fears of a new coronavirus wave, while temperatures soared in many parts of the country. The mass exodus is expected to culminate on Saturday,...

The final plan for turning Vasilisis Olgas Avenue in central Athens into a completely pedestrian way was presented by the Municipality of Athens on Wednesday. The plan, part of the project for the unification of the major archaeological sites of...

Constantine Emmanouilidi, a photographer based in Thessaloniki, traveled to Meteora in central Greece to capture this rare cosmic event when comet Neowise crossed over the towering rock formations which are home to one of the largest and most precipitously...

Comet NEOWISE put on a spectacular show for skywatchers over Athens early on Thursday morning. Alexandros Maragos, an Athens-based, award-winning filmmaker and photographer, captured the passage of the comet over the Greek capital at 05:00 local time, about an hour...

Three new metro stations opened to the public on Tuesday in the Greek capital. Named after the Piraeus suburbs of Aghia Varvara, Korydallos and Nikea, the new Line 3 metro stations will serve 60,000 people daily, a number that will...

The historic Chancery Building of U.S. Embassy Athens, designed by Walter Gropius – one of the most prominent figures of modern architecture - has been lighted in the colors of the American flag as the U.S mission in Greece...