Volos

Everybody has heard about the wonderful Greek summer the blue waters and the sandy beaches. But there is so much more that Greece can offer to anyone who is looking for a good vacations destination!

Pelion Mountain

Rising over the city of Volos in Thessaly and home of the mythical Centaurs, creatures who were half man and half horse.

Members of anarchist and extreme leftist groups wreaked havoc across Greece well into the night of Thursday, November 17, burning, smashing property and occasionally clashing with police forces.

A total of 84 people sat in the dock on Monday for a criminal trial relating to soccer match-fixing between 2009 and 2011.

Those facing trial include soccer club officials, players and referees.

Three people lost their lives in heavy rainfall, Tuesday. A 63-year-old woman, near the city of Kalamata in the Peloponnese, who was confined to a wheel-chair, was trapped in her basement level apartment when waters flooded her house before help could arrive. An 80-year-old man in Thourio and an unidentified man also lost their lives in the weather storm.

Between July 18 and 23, a summer camp for young stargazers has been organized at the Kletsas Estate near the historic and restored Gravia Inn in Fokida, central Greece, which promises days of exciting activities and magical nights exploring the evening skies under the guidance of professional and amateur astronomers.

Torrential rain has dashed hopes in Romania of setting a Guinness Book world record for Greece's famous syrtaki dance.

Romanians were attempting to break the world record for the dance made famous in the 1964 movie "Zorba the Greek" before a storm struck this Black Sea port on Saturday.

Greek narcotics forces have managed to disband 3 notorious drug rings operating in the cities of Larissa and Volos, central Greece. The Greek narcotics unit in conjunction with the Crime Prevention and Repression group arrested two couples in Larissa last week who had stashed 418 grams of heroine in their car.

Public transport in Greece on Thursday ground to a halt, ministries and schools were closed and hundreds of thousands took the streets in the largest strike in years.

There were no reports of injury or damage but footage from central Athens showed some protesters throwing Molotov-cocktails at the police and security forces fighting back with tear gas.

At least 582 undocumented migrants have been rescued or intercepted by Greek authorities over the last 24 hours in 21 separate incidents in various sea regions in the eastern Aegean, from Samothrace to Rhodes.
The third country nationals were attempting to sneak onto Greek territories from neighboring Turkey.

The popular syrtaki (from the word syrtos, meaning dragged), initially choreographed by Giorgos Provias for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek is not a traditional Greek folk dance but a mixture of slow and fast versions of the Greek hasapiko dance. Accompanied by Mikis Theodorakis’ music, the dance has come to embody all that is Greek.
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