A Taste of Culture: Eating and Drinking at the Museums of Athens

A Taste of Culture: Eating and Drinking at the Museums of Athens

Sculptures, work, pictures exhibitions, installations… After which chilly espresso, snacks, and scrumptious inventive dishes from Greek and different cuisines. The museums in Athens are housed within the among the metropolis’s most stunning buildings and provide, in...
Modern Love: Couples Who Shaped the Culture of 20th-Century Greece

Modern Love: Couples Who Shaped the Culture of 20th-Century Greece

One Single and Everlasting Greece –Rallou Manou and Pavlos Mylonas “Δεν υπάρχει άρχαία και νεα Ελλάδα, αλλά μόνον Ελλάδα, αιώνια, ζωντανή και ωραία” (Ελληνικό Χορόδραμα 1950-1960 1961, p8)  “There isn’t any distinction between ‘historic’ Greece and ‘fashionable’...
Unraveling the Mysteries of Early Cycladic Culture

Unraveling the Mysteries of Early Cycladic Culture

Over 5,000 years in the past, nestled amidst the azure waters of the Aegean Sea, the Cycladic islands bore witness to the rise of a dynamic tradition that flourished throughout the Early Bronze Age (c.3200-2000 BC), lengthy earlier than the large-scale palatial...
A Sea of Stories: Preserving Cycladic Maritime Culture

A Sea of Stories: Preserving Cycladic Maritime Culture

Manolis Zisimopoulos from Paros, remembers taking journeys on kaikia (conventional picket boats) from the age of seven, recalling the times when his grandfather and father transported barley for the manufacturing of beer to Athens. Captain Kostas Prasinos on the...
The unique culture of Syros island

The unique culture of Syros island

Positioned within the island advanced of the Cyclades, Syros is likely one of the most astonishing islands within the Aegean Sea. Its identify derives from the traditional Phoenician language and, extra particularly, both from the phrase Sur, which suggests stony, or...