Europe

The Lotus F1 Team has decided to honor the memory of the famous Greek painter El Greco. Four hundreds years after the death of the artist, who was a leading figure of the Spanish Renaissance, Lotus will design a special car...

The Museum of Santa Cruz in Toledo, Spain, is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the famous Greek painter El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) from March 13, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of his death on April 7, 1614. The exhibition will be...

The greatest exhibition ever of the works of El Greco will take place in Toledo, Spain. Three pieces by Greece’s most famous painter will travel to Spain, to be included in the exhibition entitled The Greek of Toledo. These three...

By Aspasia Zontanou Düsseldorf’s Museum Kunstpalast is staging Germany’s first exhibition devoted to the Greek painter Dominikos Theotokopoulos of the 16th century. El Greco has been a great source of inspiration to famous artist like Cezanne, van Gogh, Picasso, Delauney,...

Cyprus, in a bid to leave their mark on the country's Presidency of the Council of the EU 2012 starting in July, have planned an exhibition presenting works of El Greco for this October. The Leventeion Municipal Museum, situated in...

There exists today a tiny enclave of Calabrian Greeks, Greek-speaking people in Reggio Calabria that seem to have survived millennia.

Rafaella Carra, popular Italian singer, presenter, and actress, has passed away at the age of 78 on Monday.

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Wednesday informing the public that a total of twenty fallen warriors from the 1940-1941 Greco-Italian War have finally received proper burials, eighty long years after their sacrifice for the...

A rescue operation took place on Monday morning to save 21 refugees on-board a small vessel, 40 nautical miles off Cape Greco, in the southeastern coast of Cyprus. According to an announcement by the Cypriot Ministry of Defense, the Joint...

A total of 121 masterpieces of Byzantine art will be exhibited at the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg in Russia until October 2. The opening ceremony of "Byzantium Through the Centuries" took place on Friday. The exhibition is part...

With his government immobilized over how to deal with the rising neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party accused of attacks on immigrants and with its strong anti-Semitic, anti-gay, ultra-religious stance, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told a Finnish newspaper during his...

The ruins of an ancient mythological cave in Turkey, believed to be the “gate to hell” emitting fatal carbon fumes, has emerged from the northwestern party of the counttry, Italian archaeologists have announced. Known as Pluto's Gate -- Ploutonion in...

A Greek- German journalist, Alexandros Stefanidis, decided to write the German history of the last decades from a special view.  He documented its history through the eyes of his family, who are owners of a restaurant in Karlsruhe. What...

A wall painting of  Tyche was found during the 11th season of excavations at the Sussita site.  Tyche is the Greek goddess of fortune and the site lies on the east shore of the Galilee sea. Another female manenad figure was...

Prayer in the Mount of Olives, a major work by the Greek Modernist painter Constantinos Parthenis (1878-1967), leads the Greek Art Sale in London on the 9th of April. It is estimated at £300,000-500,000. Painted in 1930, Prayer in the Mount...