Administrative regions of Greece

"What can I say, son? It looks like people just hate the soil," says Mrs Ourania as she sweeps the yard at what is one of the last surviving detached houses in the Athens suburb of Nea Smyrni.

Service on the Athens transport system will slow down over the long Easter weekend, the OASA transit company said on Thursday, presenting the schedule for the capital's metro, tram, buses and trolley buses.

On Saturday in particular, buses and trolley buses will start pulling off the road after 10 p.m. so that drivers can attend church for the Resurrection service at midnight.

The annual arrival of the Holy Light in Athens will take place on Holy Saturday (April 15) aboard a special flight conducted by Aegean Airlines from Jerusalem. It will later be shared by airplane with other major cities ahead of church easter services at midnight that day.

The continuation of large deviations in the taxable property rates (known as objective values) in relation to the actual prices in the market makes the objective value review process that has already started in several municipalities more difficult.

A well-known foreign soccer player on a Greek Super League team has been indicted by an Athens prosecutor on felony charges over his alleged sexual molestation of an 18-year-old woman from Belgium.

A prominent businessman and former publisher, Giorgos Bobolas has died at the age of 95, it was announced on Tuesday.

An Intercity train traveling from Athens to Thessaloniki on Sunday experienced a power outage, causing it to come to a sudden stop just outside the city of Larissa in central Greece. 

The incident caused unrest among the passengers as the lights went out.

The Theater of Lycabettus, located on a hill that overlooks the capital, is slated to reopen this summer after undergoing upgrades, Attica Regional Governor Giorgos Patoulis has told Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA). 

Athens has decided to proceed with the gradual closure of the Lavrio refugee camp, which has long been accused by Ankara of being a hideout for terrorists under the guise of being asylum-seekers, due to "the unsuitability of the site to continue hosting refugees."

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%.