Event News

Konstantinos Lazarakis will make a guest appearance for an exclusive wine-tasting weekend at Kinsterna Hotel & Spa in Monemvasia in October 2013. The theme of this year’s wine-tasting weekend is Greece versus France.

If you’re on Santorini these days, don’t miss the Ifestia Festival, the annual tribute to the island’s volcano that never sleeps, on Sunday, 25 August!

The Athens International Airport and “Aegeanale” platform of art and culture invite the public to a unique journey of images destined to the Aegean Sea: the new exhibition of photography and video art entitled “Aegean Experienced.”

The Acropolis Museum celebrates the August Full Moon on Wednesday, 21 August, with famous melodies of the Greek and world repertoire, performed by the historic Army Band of Athens, in the Museum’s entrance courtyard at 9:30 pm.

More than 100 archaeological sites, monuments and museums throughout Greece will remain open on the night of 21 August 2013 to celebrate the full moon.

Railway services operator Trainose will charge a special price for adults and children who board the steam train of Pelion, the legendary so-called “Moutzouris,” on 7 August, in celebration of the train’s 110th birthday.

The independent music and graffiti festival “Beach Street Festival” at Vatera Beach on Lesvos wrapped up on 28 July. It is estimated that the event attracted some 2,000 visitors to Lesvos.

Kastoria’s River Party is back this year from 31 July until 4 August and invites all to experience the music and camping festival on the banks of Aliakmonas River, at Nestorio.

Athletes with disabilities from Thessaloniki, Kavala, Serres and Komotini recently took part in the “Riverwalk 2013” event and went canoeing down a 10 kilometer route in the Nestos river.

The 9th International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media “Athens Video Art Festival” successfully wrapped up recently with the unveiling of a mural on the side of the Jason Inn Hotel on Agion Asomaton Street in central Athens.