Culture

The Greek Culture Ministry has secured funds of 11.6 million euros for the preservation of monuments that are part of the Cultural Routes program in Northern Greece.

Restoration projects to the Acropolis in Athens will be carried out over a period of four years with funds from the “Greece 2.0” recovery plan.

Fifty-five antiquities valued at more than $20 million have been repatriated to Greece from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

The Acropolis Museum presents the complete synthesis of the Parthenon frieze through a new application available for all mobile devices.

Nine traditional practices, customs and events, which still take place in cities and villages across Greece, have been included in the country’s National Index of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Athens’ Megaron Concert Hall now provides its online visitors with a 360° tour of its premises.

Greece and Italy continue discussions on the permanent return of a Parthenon fragment, from the collection of the Archaeological Museum Antonino Salinas, to Athens.

Filming of Hollywood action-thriller ‘The Bricklayer’ is set to begin in Thessaloniki and Central Macedonia next month.

Greece has loaned an ancient statue of the goddess Athena from the Acropolis Museum collection to the Antonino Salinas Museum in Palermo, Italy.

The Greek Culture Ministry will allocate 2.1 million euros for the upgrade of cultural monuments in the area of Kastoria, western Macedonia.

The Olympia Municipal Music Theatre ‘Maria Callas’ in Athens will hold a number of concerts and art events over the next three months.

An exhibition dedicated to the history of the Greek flag has opened its doors at the Athens College Theater in the Greek capital.

Cultural projects budgeted at 6.28 million euros will soon be carried out on the Greek islands of Chios, Lesvos, Limnos and Agios Efstratios.

The Greek Tourism Ministry will support promotional actions for the city of Kastoria, aiming to ‘build’ a sustainable destination with the area’s natural and environmental wealth.

Six customs of the Greek islands of Andros, Rhodes, Sifnos, Ikaria, Limnos and Nisyros have been inscribed in the country’s National Index of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) is taking action to promote military tourism sites in Greece including museums and historic monuments.

Greece’s Council of Museums has given the green light for the creation of an Underwater Antiquities Museum on the coastal front of Piraeus.

The significant role that horses played in the lives of ancient Athenians is highlighted in a new art and science exhibition that opened in the Greek capital.

An exhibition dedicated to late Greek artist and politician Melina Merkouri will open at the Technopolis cultural complex in Athens on January 18.

The time has come for the Parthenon Marbles to return to Greece, their natural home, said Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday.