Greece

German architect Ernst Ziller left his own eternal, and magnificent, imprint on Athens by designing some of the city's most iconic buildings.

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...

Kea, called Tzia by most Greeks, is the closest Cycladic island to the Greek capital city of Athens

Syros neoclassical buildings are in imminent danger of ruination, as a result of chronically unsuccessful preservation policies. Lengthy bureaucratic procedures and the lack of restoration funding incentives are posing a threat to over a thousand decaying, privately-owned neoclassical listed buildings...

The new summertime schedule of operation for archaeological sites and museums in Greece will kick in later in April this year.

The small, round chapel of Agios Nikolaos Thon, near the corner of Alexandras and Kifissias Avenues, was turned over, fully restored, to the residents  of Athens on Sunday, Saint Nicholas Day. Unknown to all but a few, and previously sustaining...

A large police operation took place in downtown Athens on Thursday morning in order to clear out a historic building in which illegal immigrants have squatted in since 2016. Police drones, trucks, and vans, along with MAT riot police and a...

The historic building in the heart of Athens which housed the headquarters of New Democracy for many years will now be turned into a luxury hotel. The iconic building, located at Rigillis Street number 18, only a block away from...

The Athens - Peloponnese Railway Station was the second main railway station in the capital after the Athens-Larissa station but stopped operating in 2005. An architectural masterpiece, the main building was designed by French engineers  Alfred Rondell and Abel Gotteland....

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...

The Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) is to restore an old train station in the Peloponnese, southern Greece, for use as a railway museum. The impressive building has been characterized as a work of art as a typical example of...