Europe

Austria's largest newspaper, Kronen Zeitung, commonly known as the Krone hosted a three-page tribute to the Greek island of Naxos entitled In the Traces of Zeus and Dionysus on the Island of Naxos. The tribute mentions that in Naxos “the...

Nine villages in southern Italy collectively known as La Grecia Salentina (Salentine Greece) or, in the local dialect, Griko have maintained aspects of the Greek language and culture that have survived for centuries. Greek diasporas have been a constant in...

The favorite holiday destinations of British travelers for 2023 were announced on Wednesday at the 2nd annual Greek Travel Awards ceremony, which took place at Six Park Place London, organized by the office of the Greek National Tourism Organization in...

Dozens of Irish students formed a guard of honor at the port of the Greek island of Ios to pay their last respects to two classmates who died on the island in separate incidents. The bodies of Andrew O'Donnell and...

Two Irish teenagers, both aged 18, who recently graduated from the same school in Dublin have died while on holiday on Ios Island, Greece. Andrew O'Donnell and Max Wall arrived on the Greek island as part of a big group...

A spectacular Hellenistic-era grave featuring elegant grave goods was uncovered recently in Chieti, Italy as a result of a public works project. The discovery of the burial, estimated to be from around the fourth to third century BC, was the...

Greece has been named the most popular destination in Europe for beach-passionate travelers this year, according to the 2022 Best Beaches Index published by vacation rentals search engine Holidu. Based on Google rankings, Holidu’s “Most Popular Countries for Beaches in...

Professor Clive Finlayson, an evolutionary biologist who is the director of the Gibraltar National Museum, recently led a team of experts along the shore of the eponymous Rock, finding a Neanderthal cave that was inhabited long ago. They ended up...

On Tuesday, Germany's Robert Koch Institute listed parts of Greece – including tourism magnets the Greek islands – as high-risk areas for Covid-19 because of the rising numbers of infections reported there. The German medical authority officially placed Crete and...

New data shows that Greece's tax on beer is among the top five in Europe. Each European country is required to have a Special Consumption Tax on beer, the minimum of which is 1.87 euro per 100 liters. Greece...

The number of marriages in Greece has halved while divorces quadrupled since 1964 according to a report by Eurostat released Thursday. 

The Austrian newspaper “Die Presse” published a five-page tribute to the Greek islands of Santorini, Milos, Naxos and Paros entitled “Cyclades, Volcanic Worlds.” The author of the article presents the beauty of the islands along with useful information about the...

Summer is just around the corner and while many foreigners refer to Greece as "paradise on earth," the tributes to glorious destination keep on multiplying. Now Sweden has jumped in, following the British and American media on the big...

An art exhibition will connect the two EU presidencies, the Greek presidency that has just started and will last until June and the Italian, which will start in the second half of 2014. The exhibition will first take place...

The British newspaper The Telegraph has cited 10 Greek islands as perfect vacation spots, including Crete, which it ranks among the top 100 spots in the world as a destination for visitors. Athens, not known for its charm or...