Athens Macedonian News Agency

The president of the Hellenic Association of Travel & Tourist Agencies (HATTA), Lysandros Tsilidis, has said that the summer season and especially August is not expected to see a drop in tourism flows to Greece as a result of the wildfires on Rhodes and other destinations. 

Ferries scheduled to depart from Piraeus port this morning will be delayed due to strong winds. 

Passengers who are planning to travel are advised to contact the local port authorities or the shipping companies for further information.

Τhe first custom-made and on-demand Greek motorcycle was presented to the international audience at the EICMA exhibition in Milan.

A team of Greek researchers from the Academy of Athens in collaboration with researchers from Johns Hopkins University of the United States have performed groundbreaking studies on the solar system.

OrangeLand Sparta is an initiative based on the promotion of orange with the view to enhancing tourism in Laconia, a region in the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula.

“The orange is a product-symbol of Laconia,” the founder of Orangeland Christos Papadimitrakopoulos said in an interview with the Athens Macedonian News Agency (ANA).

The research vessel RV Poseidon of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research of Kiel in cooperation with the Geology Department of Kapodistrian University of Athens are examining the seabed and the underseas volcanoes of the islands of Cyclades with focus on the volcano of Santorini and the submarine volcano Kolumbo.

Who was the Berlin Painter and why is he so interesting? An exhibition starting on March 4 at Princeton University attempts to shed light on the life and work of the most important and influential artists living in ancient Athens in early 5 BC.

Greece made its 448-mln-euro loan repayment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday. Bloomberg and the Athens Macedonian News Agency quoted Finance Ministry sources that stated that the tranche was paid on time.

The money paid back is part of a bailout installment from 2010.