Greece

Anastasia Windsurfer said she was going to do it and she did! She crossed 18 nautical miles of sea from Skala, Kefalonia to Kyllini located in the Peloponnese on her windsurf. It took her 6 hours non-stop. Her successful attempt will...

The organizing team of the Thessaloniki International Fair is planning on achieving a Guinness World Record for the largest Pontic “Omal” dance in both length and number of participants. The dance will take place as part of the concert...

Famous Greek actor, Thomas Paliouras has made his way into the Guinness Book of World Records by playing the same role, in the same show, for 11 consecutive years.  Paliouras is in the Guinness World Records as the longest-serving...

The cultural association To Rhodo in Chania, Crete, is making a giant dakos. For those who may not know, dakos is a Cretan meze, consisting of a slice of soaked dried bread or barley rusk (paximadi) topped with chopped...

A major supermarket chain company in Northern Greece has launched an invitation to all willing unshaven men to participate in a group shave that will enter the World Guinness Records book. The group shave event will take place on Sunday,...

Shepherds and locals hectically prepared for the big 4th Cheese Festival which took place in Zoniana, Rethumno on July 31st. The festival included the presentation and cutting of the largest kefalograviera in the world. The cheese measured 2 meters in diameter and...

Three Guinness World Records were broken by Kostas Karipidis and his team, in a ceremony that took place in the closed gymnastic hall of Alexandroupoli, followed by the presence of Japanese ambassador in Greece, Toda Hiroshi...

The Guinness Book of World Records featured the cheese-making unit in Ierissos of Chalkidiki where they make the hugest carprine cheese in the world. The representative of the Guinness World Records, Jack Brockbank gave the certificate of the inscription...

Babis Bizas is the ''world’s most traveled person'' according to the Guinness Book of Records. The adventurer travels over 300 days a year.

Michael Eleftheriades is a 17-year old student from Cyprus who aims to break a Guinness World Record for solving the Rubik's cube while being upside down in the fastest time. Eleftheriades has managed to win 40 national records so far...

A Greek woman from Nea Vyssa, in Evros, the northeastern part of Greece, broke the world record in garlic knitting after she made a braid measuring 612 meters and 70 centimeters. Dimitra Athanasova Tzoridou trashed the previous world record held...

113-year-old Ekaterini Kornarou from the town of Krestena in Peloponnese has joined the group of the oldest people in the world. According to official documents and electronic records Karnarou was born on July 25, 1905. According to local news reports, her...

The Greek island of Naxos has found its way into the Guinness World records Book for something that you might not expect -- for frying a record amount of potatoes! That's right, Naxos served up some 554 kilos of french...

Naxos potato growers are preparing to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest quantity of potatoes served, during the 8th Potato Festival in July. The Cyclades island is famous for its delicious potatoes and the producers of the...

Residents and visitors in Kalamata, Peloponnese flocked in the city's main square to watch 740 dancers break the Guinness world record in Bachata dancing. The Bachata is a social Latin dance that was born in the rural areas of the...