German carrier Germania has announced it will launch a new twice weekly service from Dresden to Athens in 2018. The service will be seasonal and will run from May to October 2018.

The great demand for the Greek market is requiring the company to launch a third aircraft in 2018 to cover the increased travel needs for the Greek islands and Athens from Germany.

One-way flights will be available from 69 euros (airport taxes included) and will be soon be available on booking systems.

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The 74-year-old conceptual artist Marta Minujín has recreated her seminal installation – initially constructed in Buenos Aires in 1983 – with thousands of banned books that have been donated by the public.

Marta Minujín's monumental installation "The Parthenon of Books" is one of the highlights of this year's Documenta in Kassel, Germany.

The installation in Friedrichsplatz perfectly mimics the grandeur and scale of the Parthenon at 10 meters high by 70 meters long and 30 meters wide.

On each of the 46 columns, up to 100,000 books which have been forbidden in various countries for numerous reasons (like Goethe’s romantic novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, that led to a wave of suicides across Europe) have been attached to the metal scaffolding replica in plastic bags.

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Photo Credit: Maxie Fischer from documenta 14

Air China will start direct flights between Beijing and Athens as of September 2017, according to a press release issued recently after a meeting between State Minister Alekos Flambouraris and Chinese Ambassador to Greece Zou Xiaoli at Maximos Mansion.

The two officials discussed the presence of Chinese companies in the coming Thessaloniki International Fair that will kick off on September 9, 2017 where China is the honoured country.

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The civil aviation authorities of Greece and Russia have agreed to increase flights between Athens and Moscow by up to 35 weekly, according to Russian news agency RIA Novosti. The initiative for cooperation came from Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency.

Additionally, two local airlines will operate 14 new flights to Athens on a temporary basis until the next round of consultations.

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Air Mediterranean has recently announced the launch of seven new international flights out of Athens that will be flying to, London, Stockholm, Jeddah, Casablanca, Khartoum and Iraq (Baghdad and Erbil), starting November 1, 2017.

Ticket prices for all European destinations will start from 85 euros, including airport taxes and other fees.

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Photo Credit: Air Mediterranean

The airlines of the Lufthansa Group – Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings – this winter (2017/18) will be connecting 288 destinations in 106 countries with 24,922 weekly flights.

The winter flight schedule of the individual group airlines will come into force on Sunday October 29, 2017, and will be valid until Saturday March 24, 2018.

From the end of October, Lufthansa will start operating flights from Frankfurt to many new winter destinations, including Pamplona, Genoa, Bari, Catania, Kuusamo in Finland, Cluj and Timișoara in Romania, Santiago de Compostela, Reykjavik, Palermo and Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Ryanair has recently launched a new flight connecting Thessaloniki’s Macedonia Airport with Naples, Italy, twice a week for the winter season.

The low-cost carrier is currently flying from Thessaloniki to 14 destinations in Europe, including Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Memmingen, Baden Baden and Dortmund in Germany.

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The Istanbul Biennial, one of Turkey's biggest art festivals, reached international waters with this year’s theme of ‘a good neighbor.’ As Lonely Planet reports, part of the biennial’s series of ‘neighboring events,’ Turkish art Volkan Aslan has installed his video work of ‘Home Sweet Home at the Municipal Art Gallery of Mytilini on Less.

The strong cultural and historical linkages between Turkey and Greece recur throughout the Lesvos exhibition. The gallery itself is housed in the restored former mansion of Halim Bey, the island’s last Ottoman governor and the great-grandfather of Turkish art collector Can Elgiz, whose family photos and mementos fill one first-floor room.

The couple, who own the Elgiz Museum of contemporary art in İstanbul, helped bring Aslan’s work to Lesvos as part of an on-going cultural-exchange agreement with the local municipality.

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Beginning March 27, 2018, Qatar Airways will launch four weekly flights connecting Doha to Thessaloniki.

 

Flights between Doha and Thessaloniki will be conducted on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. The Qatar aircraft will depart from Doha at 07:40 to arrive in Thessaloniki at 12:50. The return flight will depart from Thessaloniki at 13:50 to arrive in Doha at 18:40.

The new service between Doha and Thessaloniki will be operated by an Airbus A320 aircraft, featuring 12 seats in Business Class and 132 seats in Economy Class.

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This winter in Belgium, a charity concert organized by '12 Hours for Greece' raised 35,000 euros to support the initiative 'Fuel for Schools.' Greek artists performed at the concert and hundreds of Greeks and philhellenes attended. The funds from the concert were then donated to the International Foundation of Greece to help heat the schools in remote areas of northern Greece.

'Fuel for Schools' was started in 2012 and has raised money annually to benefit the schools struggling during the current economic crisis. Aspasia Leventis, the founder and president of the International Foundation for Greece said in a press conference that this year 250 schools had applied for the program.

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