Greece

Eleusis has been named the European Capital of Culture for 2023, making it the fourth Greek city in a row to host the institution. Attica's treasures already attract thousands of visitors, including a high volume of artists from all over...

Greek health officials stated most intubated coronavirus patients are aged from 35-50 -- and dozens of people are now waiting outside ICUs.

The number of coronavirus patients undergoing intubation, an intensive treatment used to facilitate breathing, remains high in Greece.

On Wednesday, a series of wildfires broke out around east Attica, forcing the evacuation of many towns in the region. And yet another new wildfire is threatening east Attica's seaside, including the town of Artemida. The fire is thought to...

Former Health Minister and respected cardiothoracic surgeon Dimitris Kremastinos has died aged 78 after contracting the coronavirus. Kremastinos had been admitted into Athens’ Evangelismos hospital with medical complications related to Covid-19 on March 26. He served as a minister in PASOK...

The Association of Bakers of Athens, together with citizens from Attica's large municipality of Peristeri, prepared, baked and distributed to the public a massive ''Vasilopita,'' the traditional cake Greek families enjoy on New Year's Eve, on Tuesday. Peristeri mayor Andreas...

American gaming giants Mohegan and Hard Rock International will battle for the rights to build a casino on the site of the former Athens airport at Ellinikon, as part of an enormous resort on Attica's coast. Mohegan has proposed a...

A joint study conducted recently by the Hellenic Centre for Maritime Research and the Geology Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens reveals the massive amount of new construction along the Athenian Riviera in the last 80...

A disturbing accident took place on Wednesday afternoon in Attica's southern suburb of Alimos, as a man and his goddaughter were attempting to make their way to a beach there. A railway vehicle belonging to Athens' tram network hit and killed...

Attica has many small and tiny islets, scattered all over its coastline, but one of them is quite peculiar and absolutely stunning. A 40-minute drive from downtown Athens and close to the town of Keratea, in Attica's Mesogea, a rocky...

The Greek police have launched a manhunt for three Albanian inmates who escaped from an Athens detention unit in the early hours of Monday. A fourth inmate was arrested several hours after the escape from the detention location on Petrou...

New Democracy Party-backed George Patoulis has a clear lead in the race for Attica's Governor, according to official results published on Sunday night. With almost 75 percent of the votes counted, Patoulis and his team received 37.6 percent of the...

The candidate from the center-left KINAL and To Potami parties, and current Mayor of Piraeus Giannis Moralis, won the first round of voting for the mayoral office of Attica's port city in the Sunday elections. With more than half of...

A group of supporters of convicted terrorist Dimitris Koudontinas vandalized shops in central Athens on Thursday night in an apparent protest at Greek authorities' refusal to grant him a new furlough. Approximately thirty self-styled anarchists wielding clubs smashed windows of two...

The ''Spectrum of the Seas,'' the largest cruise ship in the entire world, anchored in Greece's port of Piraeus on the morning of Holy Tuesday. The Royal Caribbean's newest cruise ship, which is carrying more than 3,000 passengers, is on its very...