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Friday, 11 November 2016 21:16
November 8 - Food, Travel, & The Arts
Explore more of Greece with 49 reasons to love our country, the first contemporary art museum, TripAdvisor's Top 10 restaurants, and a charming village!
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Friday, 11 November 2016 21:07
November 1 - Happy November ~ Kalo Mina!
Celebrate the beginning of November with the Aegean Symphony, Lesvos, a Greek design workshop rethinking plastic waste, a recipe for a delicious pumpkin soup, and the new 'World Book Capital', Athens!
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Friday, 11 November 2016 20:47
Anastatica Project Revives Old Greek Music & Spreads It All Over The World
‘People often think old Greek music is dead. It is not, it only needs a little bit of humidity in order to blossom again,’ says Greek vocalist Katerina Papadopoulou explaining why she initiated project Anastatica.
Anastatica project is a collaboration between musicians and a vocalist that remaster old traditional tunes and songs and turns them into ethnic music. Vocals and dance are equally incorporated into their music. They value music that is transferred from place to place and from one era to another, without losing its originality and drive.
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Thursday, 10 November 2016 07:00
5 Reasons Greece Is The Perfect Destination For Families
From excellent weather and great family hotels, Greece offers a lot for a family holiday. Chrissy from Travel Passionate shares her reasons why Greece is the perfect family destination all year round, along with family-friendly destinations!
The Food
The Mediterranean cuisine of Greece with its fresh vegetables, fruits, and olive oil are perfect for a healthy meal. Also, in most tavernas and restaurants in Greece, you will find delicious homemade food ideal for children. The tavernas and restaurants are also child-friendly, many of them offering chairs and special menus for kids.
Activities For Children
There are many activities in Greece that children will find interesting. There are many monuments and historical sites that can be found around the country and children can learn history and mythology in a fun way. Your kids will love the stories of the ancient Gods of the Olympus and their magical powers. Other exciting activities include water parks, horseback riding, child-friendly museums, the big Aquarium in Crete, the Planetarium and the Attica Zoo in Athens.
Family-Friendly Hotels
Family-Friendly Hotels
The are many hotels in Greece that offer facilities that are perfect for family holidays. Large family rooms, babysitting services, pools for children, playgrounds, entertainment rooms, animation services, private sandy beaches with watersport activities, tennis courts, basketball and other sports facilities are all ideal for children.
To read this article in full, please visit: Travel Passionate
To read this article in full, please visit: Travel Passionate
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Thursday, 10 November 2016 07:00
Over 50,000 Athletes Expected In This Year’s 34th Athens Marathon
More than 50,000 athletes will participate in the 34th Athens Marathon, which will be held on November 13th, 2016 following the historic route of Pheidippides, the dispatch-runner who brought Athens news of the Greek victory against the Persians at Marathon and then collapsed.
The president of the Marathon’s organising committee and SEGAS chief Kostas Panagopoulos said, “We’re happy this year to have more than 50,000 runners, but I want to tell you with great sincerity that I think we are just after halfway in relation to the goals we have set for the Athens Marathon. The goal is high. We want the Athens Marathon to be the most important cultural and sports festival in the world.”
He added, “We estimate this leaves the city an amount of around 15 million euros from which benefits not just the tourism industry, but also Athens’ daily life.”
To read this article in full, please visit: Greek Reporter
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Monday, 09 March 2020 07:00
Patates Fournou - Greek Roasted Potatoes With Lemon & Garlic
Traditionally cooked with meat, these potatoes are a classic Greek dish. Crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside, Greek-style, roasted potatoes are hard to resist. Elena Paravantes from Olive Tomato shares her mother’s recipe, which adds two special ingredients.
Serves: 6
Difficulty: Easy
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 35 minutes
Cooks in: 45 minutes
Cooks in: 45 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 pounds potatoes cut in small wedges (if long cut wedges in half)
- ½ cup olive oil
- 2-3 teaspoons dry oregano
- 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 3 cloves
- 3 allspice
- 2 garlic cloves quartered
- ½ teaspoon salt
- freshly ground pepper
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Tuesday, 08 November 2016 07:00
Two Greeks Shortlisted For World Mayor Award
Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis and his counterpart from Lesvos, Spiros Galinos, are in the running for the biennial World Mayor Award to be selected through online voting at World Mayor.
The mayors of Athens and Lesvos have both made it into the Top 15 and have been singled out for their ongoing efforts during the refugee crisis.
The World Mayor Project aims to raise the profile of mayors worldwide and honour those who have served their communities well and who have made contributions to the well-being of cities nationally and internationally.
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Monday, 07 November 2016 15:35
metamatic:taf
metamatic:taf is a pioneering cultural and digital centre in Athens established in 2009. It has a dual role of an independent space that organizes and hosts cultural events related to all forms of artistic production. It is also a meeting point where people can gather and socialize, assuming a new Athenian identity.
metamatic:taf has defined a contemporary model of cultural production and action, operating as a continuously evolving formation within urban networks. Having being established as an open space for circulating ideas and practices based on participatory culture, experimentation and cross-disciplinary exploration, metamatic:taf seeks to establish extended partnerships with communities of creators across a wide cultural spectrum, whilst building a substantial relationship with its audience through active engagement and co-creation.
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Tuesday, 03 September 2019 07:00
100 Under-The-Radar Places Everyone Should Visit In The World
Travel should be more than crossing attractions off a bucket list. It should be an opportunity to see some truly magnificent and unique parts of the world.
From a Japanese island that doubles as an active volcano to a neon green lake in New Zealand, Business Insider named 100 places deemed worthy of a trip of a once-in-a-lifetime trip. Here are a few of our favorites!
1. Weave through the world's longest hedge maze at Wiltshire's Longleat Maze, which measures nearly two miles.
2. Swim beside waterfalls in beautifully clear water at the Fairy Pools in the village of Carbost on Scotland's Isle of Skye.
3. Hop on a colourful boat in Aveiro, a vibrant canal city that's bursting with cool architecture on Portugal's west coast.
4. Travel to the very north of Denmark to Grenen, a beach in the town of Skagen that connects two seas: The Skagerrak Straight in the North Sea, and the Kattegat, which flows between Denmark and Sweden.
5. Climb inside the crater of an active volcano (if you dare) on the island of Nisyros in Greece's Dodecanese. The volcano's last eruption was in 1888.
6. Take in the views from the Kolukkumalai Tea Estate — a sprawling piece of land that sits at 8,000 feet above sea level — in Munnar, India.
7. Stay inside the temporary Ice Hotel installed every winter in Quebec City, Canada. It's not just the architecture that's sculpted out of ice — even the furniture is made out of the stuff.
8. Admire the ornate patterns on the houses and church in the village of Pyrgi, on the Greek island of Chios.
9. The US city of Boston is filled with cool cultural spots. George's Island, which is one of the islands in the Boston Harbour, was used as a coastal defence in the American Civil War.
10. Journey to the edge of a cliff in the Faroe Islands to visit the remote village of Gásadalur and enjoy breathtaking views.
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Monday, 07 November 2016 07:00
Greece Unveils First Contemporary Art Museum
"I think this is something that should have happened years ago," the museum’s director said.
Legislation establishing the museum, known as EMST, was passed 19 years ago. The museum is built in the refurbished Fix brewery in central Athens.
Introducing modern art to a culture brought up on marble columns and the galloping friezes of the Parthenon would appear to be a daunting and thankless task, but Katerina Koskinas, the director of Greece's first National Museum of Contemporary Art, was giddy with excitement and lack of sleep on the eve of the museum's opening.
EMST may not fire up the art market directly, since it is not an art broker, but it will make Greek artists more visible.
EMST was conceived in a period of optimism. In the late 1990s, Greece planned its new Acropolis Museum, now the country's most popular attraction after the Acropolis itself. The shift to culture could emerge as Greece's next national project.
To read this article in full, please visit: Al Jazeera
To read this article in full, please visit: Al Jazeera
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