Can the Greek capital’s concrete jungle ever change? Afforestation of neglected open spaces the size of 600 football fields could turn Athens into a green city, experts say.
Backed into a corner of concrete and pavement, few Athenians have a garden or a grassy lawn to call their own. Each resident of this crowded metropolis, home [...]
Limassol Wine Festival | August 28, 2009 to September 6, 2009 | Organised by Limassol Municipality
Cyprus’ wine capital Limassol lives up to its reputation as a party town with a Wine Festival that it hosts every year. Held at the Municipal Gardens, just across from the coastal promenade, in late August, early September, this event has [...]
Retailer shop chain Public plans to invest 50 million euros up until 2012 in opening new stores in Greece and abroad, the company announced yesterday.
The retailer, whose product range among other includes books, computers and games, will pour 10 million euros this year into five new stores that will create 150 job positions, according to [...]
Art lovers and others have started meeting at friendly new or refurbished bars in the Greek capital that help attract people to exhibitions. The cafe in the basement of the National Archaeological Museum has in the past had its fair share of controversy, with exorbitant prices and rude staff. Now it has been refurbished and has [...]
Every year countless vacationers take a beach holiday to relax, feel the surf on their feet, the warmth of the sun on their skin and the wind in their hair.
The sea’s effect on health is also the focus of Thalassotherapy, a Greek word that means therapy through the sea. Thalasso has made some things [...]
So Cyprus has a Cipriani Ristorante in Nicosia, another indication that they are without doubt the centre of the universe.
Just as their empire is collapsing in New York, and Venice has never really recovered from the loss of Hemingway and Welles, not to mention the Aga Khan, we can now be certain that the Nicosia’s [...]
One of Greece’s leading oenologists who produces wine under the Gaia [Mother Earth] label is on a mission.
Dr. Yiannis Paraskevopoulos is a man on a mission. He is arguably Greece’s most visible oenologist, a respected winemaker, an influential teacher and a “poster boy for a modern, urbane wine industry”. He is also relatively young, disarmingly [...]
