Central Greece

The residents of four parts of Dervenohoria in Viotia, northwest of Athens, were ordered to evacuate towards the West Attica town of Mandra on Tuesday as a wildfire started to approach homes and thick smoke filled the air.

Panorama, Pournari, Palaiohori and Agios Sotiras were being evacuated, as the blaze also crossed regional lines into Attica, heading towards Vilia and Oinoi.

A family was awarded 310,000 euros in compensation on Thursday for the death of a woman during the Mati wildfire in 2018. This was the second ruling of a three-member Court of First Instance in Athens.

The woman died at sea, drowning while she was attempting to escape the lethal fires.

Cars formed long lines on national roads around Attica on Sunday afternoon, as voters returned from voting centers outside the capital.

Traffic was particularly heavy on the Athens-Corinth national highway heading to Athens, particularly from the Corinth Canal  to Nea Peramos.

The rate of house price growth is continuously exceeding record highs, according to data compiled by the Bank of Greece for the first quarter of this year. Indicatively, prices rose 14.5% year-on-year in Greece as a whole, with even higher increases in the two biggest urban centers, reaching 16.5% in Attica and 16.1% in Thessaloniki.

A festival within the ongoing Eleusis European Capital of Culture 2023 program, Synoikismoi, named after the Greek word for an amalgamation of tribes, villages or towns, celebrates the western Attica city and its denizens. Using different venues across Elefsina, the multimedia event features dance, music, theater, performance art, food and much more.

The annual Easter exodos of Athenians from the capital picked up pace at Attica's ports, motorways and airports on Good Friday.

A total of 14 ferries are scheduled to depart for the Aegean islands and 31 for the Saronic islands. Another 12 ferries will depart from Rafina and 9 from Lavrio ports.

The sales prices of houses in Attica grew twice as fast as rents in the first quarter of 2023, according to the processing of the data from the Spitogatos Property Index (SPI).

The increase in sales prices in the capital was 10% at an annual basis, while that for rent amounted to 4.9%.

The mild weather and an abundance of food in the form of trash are driving up the number of wild boar roaming Attica and posing a serious driving hazard.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday presented a program of 540 projects with a budget of 4.2 billion euros for the region of Central Greece, including key motorway and rail upgrades.

Responding to the new conditions and challenges that have been created in Attica and its peculiar ecosystems in recent years, the Environmental Association of Athens-Piraeus Municipalities has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the ANIMA animal care center for the more effective protection of wildlife.