Greece

Pavlopetri is a small islet off the coast of Laconia in the Peloponnese, where ancient history meets the endless blue of the Mediterranean.

The Greek National School in Vienna, the oldest still-functioning Greek school in the world, has celebrated 220 years since its opening. The school - founded in 1804 - was awarded the 'Simonos Sina' award by the Academy of Athens in...

Theopetra Cave, located in the Meteora limestone rock formations of Thessaly, Central Greece, is likely to be the place of the oldest human construction on earth, as findings indicate that the cave was inhabited as early as 130,000 years ago. According...

Scientists estimate that the olive tree has been in the village of Ano Vouves in Chania for more than 3000 years.

Feta is the soft white “king” of Greek cheeses, renowned around the world. Its origins can be traced back to ancient times, since the first mention of the famous cheese is as old as Homer's Odyssey. In fact, it's...

Antiparos is a small Greek island in the southern Aegean, in the central Cyclades, and it is home to the oldest cave in Europe

Perhaps the oldest bridge in Europe that is still in use today can be found in Greece, and it is named the Arkadiko Bridge. 

In Chania, the famous Iordanis has been baking fresh Bougatsa - the Greek sweet filo pastry - since 1922.

Although the Greek capital of Athens is full of ancient monuments and temples, its oldest standing house, the Venizelos Mansion, dates to the 16th century.

An ancient oak tree in northern Greece is believed to be among the oldest surviving tree of its kind in Europe. 

Esther Cohen, the oldest Greek survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, who became known as a "living testimony" of the Holocaust, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 96. The Ioannina-born Jewish woman, who had had her official camp...

Greece's oldest woman, Katerina Karnarou, has passed away at the age of 115. Greek Reporter conducted an interview with Karnarou in 2018, when she was a mere 113, in which she told fascinating stories of her life and the monumental...

The oldest person in Greece to be treated after having contracted the COVID-19 coronavirus is 101 years of age, according to an epidemiological report published on Monday by the Hellenic National Public Health Organization (EODY). The EODY report revealed a...

Greece's oldest actress died on Saturday, October 19. Her name was Titika Nikiforaki and she was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1914. She first appeared as an actress at the Greek National Theater in 1935, at the age of 21. She played...

Ekaterini "Katerina" Karnarou, considered to be the oldest woman in Greece, celebrated the milestone of her 114th birthday among family and friends on Saturday. Kornarou was born in Grylos, a village on Greece’s Peloponnesian Peninsula, in 1905. Before her birthday, we...