Culture

British best-selling author Victoria Hislop recently visited the archaeological site of the Lasithi Plateau, an area of great historic significance on Crete.

A set of restoration procedures will take place at the Greek archaeological site of Delos to preserve its monuments and also upgrade the island’s tourism infrastructure.

The Municipality of Chania has turned one of the city’s old Turkish baths on Kasteli hill into an art gallery to host exhibitions and cultural events.

Athens’ Kolonos Festival 2021 will host popular Greek artists in a number of concerts and theater performances scheduled to take place during September 6-28.

Six culture projects slated for the Peloponnese region, including the Kalamata Dance Festival and dozens of restoration actions, have received the go-ahead by state and local authorities.

The Athens Municipality has expanded its street art program with the addition of another impressive mural in the district of Gazi.

Greece’s culture ministry has approved the restoration of Lavrio’s major industrial heritage monument, an old iron quay used by the French Mining Company in the late 1880s.

The number of visitors to Greece’s museums dropped by 89.4% between January and April, compared to the same period last year, said the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT).

Greece says British Museum is not caring for the Parthenon Marbles and calls for their return to their homeland.

The Archaeological Museum of Delphi has included new signs and virtual reality programs to make its collection more accessible to persons with disabilities.

An exhibition dedicated to Greek opera legend Maria Callas is open at the Achillion Museum on the island of Corfu.

The Greek Culture Ministry has presented restoration actions that are planned to address the damage caused by recent forest fires to the 4,000-hectare royal estate at Tatoi.

Stephen G Miller, the archaeologist who unearthed the ancient stadium of Nemea in the Peloponnese, and devoted his life to the revival of the Nemean Games, passed away at the …

All outdoor archaeological sites in Greece will remain closed between noon and 5 pm due to the heatwave that has been scorching the country.

The Old Acropolis Museum in Athens will be restored to reopen as an exhibition venue.

Twelve projects, including upgrade works on the Acropolis, have been cleared for funding out of the country’s “Greece 2.0” recovery plan.

An archaeological park that has 530 ancient burial tombs has opened in Aigai, the ancient kingdom located near Vergina in northern Greece.

A total of 140 concerts, art shows, theater and dance performances are scheduled to take place across Greece in the next two months, the culture ministry announced.

A stolen 1939 painting offered to Greece by Pablo Picasso was recovered by police, found in the hands of a builder who broke into the country’s National Gallery nearly a …

A total of 4 million euros in funds will go towards the restoration of three landmarks on the island of Skiathos, according to Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni.