Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of ...

This post highlights historical places to visit in Athens Greece. It also provides insight into planning your itinerary for a ...

But you need to step beyond the Greek capital to truly appreciate what the country has to offer, a wealth of historic visitor ...

Acropolis Museum, Nikolaos Stampolidis, Yale University, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Public Archaeology, Cultural ...

Aiolou Street in Athens is arguably the navel of modern Greece. A street around which the city and an entire nation began to ...

One week after the Acropolis ticket price rose from 20 to 30 euros on April 1, 2025, global visitors continue flocking to the ...

Athens (AFP) – Greece's culture ministry has declined a request by the Greek director of the Oscar-winning "Poor Things" to film at the Acropolis, saying the scenes did not align with the ...

Greece's culture ministry has declined a request by the Greek director of the Oscar-winning "Poor Things" to film at the Acropolis, saying the scenes did not align with the storied site's image.

The Parthenon was built decades after the Persian destruction of Athens and the Acropolis. Credit: Gary Bembridge/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-2.0 In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners the most attention. In fact, it's routinely referred to simply as "The ...

My suite has a large, open terrace overlooking the church garden, with the undeniable wow factor of Athens’ star attraction, the Acropolis, standing sentinel in the distance. Below, tables and ...