Akadimia, Athens

Streets in downtown Athens will be closed to traffic on March 25 due to the school and military parades that will be held to celebrate Greece's Independence Day.

No traffic will be allowed on Vassilisis Sofias, Amalias, and Georgiou A Avenues, as well as Herodou Attikou, Panepistimiou, Stadiou, Filellinon, and Akadimias streets.

The City of Athens Choir, the Dionysios Lavragas Mandolinata of Exarchia-Neapolis and the Athens Estudiantina pay tribute to the sensual Argentinian folk dance, the tango.

Every time a new building is unveiled in Athens, usually following a reconstruction, I wait anxiously to see the facade. The scale model, when it exists, may suggest the result but it does not show the quality of the materials, nor the integration of the new building into the surrounding environment. As a rule, the impression is disappointing.

A 75-year-old man was arrested for dangerous driving, disruption of transportation safety and insubordination on Sunday morning following a long car chase with police through Athens, authorities said on Tuesday.

Traffic restrictions will be in place in downtown Athens on Thursday for the official visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, police have announced.

Measures include the gradual and temporary restriction of circulation traffic, and a ban on stopping and parking at several sections of the road network.

A circular metallic canopy over the entrance-exit of the Dikastiria (Courts) metro station, on a circular plaza, will serve as a reference point of the new station.

Traffic shutdowns and road diversion will be in place on Sunday because of the "Greece Race for the Cure in Athens."

The race is a fundraiser for breast cancer and includes a running and a walking section.

The Municipality of Athens has imposed a 15,900-euro fine on radical leftist party MeRA25 over illegal posters and pre-election leaflets.

It said the services of the municipality on Friday found election posters on Panepistimiou, Akadimias, Ippokratous and Rigas Feraiou streets, but also leaflets strewn. "It is the first time that such a fine has been imposed," the municipality said.

Ten people were arrested on Thursday morning after police officers removed squatters from a building housing the Olympia Municipal Music Theater Maria Callas in central Athens.

The suspects, five men and five women, are facing charges of disrupting the operation of a service, illegal violence and aggravated damage to foreign property.

A prosecutor has ordered a preliminary investigation into an incident during Thursday's general strike in Athens where a police tow truck drove at high speed into dumpsters that were being wheeled into the middle of a street by protestors.

Videos of the incident, which occurred on Akadimias Street, quickly went viral.