Arcadia

The Andronis Arcadia hotel on Santorini is one of the units that has been added to the portfolio of Preferred Hotels & Resorts members, ahead of what it calls an anticipated increase in holiday planning. 

Very low temperatures, rain and snowfall accompanied by strong winds were the main characteristics of the weather in Greece on Thursday.

The lowest temperatures recorded by the Meteo service stations of Athens National Observatory on Thursday were -6.4C in the village Vlasti of Kozani, -4.7C in Vytina, in Arcadia, Peloponnese and -4.7C in Mavrolithari, central Greece.

A 24-year-old man was detained on arson charges on Friday in connection with a wildfire in the area of Palaiohori in the municipality of southern Kynouria in the Arcadia prefecture of the Peloponnese. 

The fire broke out on three separate fronts virtually simultaneously, fuelling the authorities' suspicions that it was a case of arson. 

A 37-year-old man died in mountainous Corinthia on Tuesday after he was struck by lightning, a local website reported.

The man was at his field in the area of Goura in the plain of Feneos when the incident happened, korinthostv.gr said.

Harvard Library has held an event to mark its acquisition of the archive of Greek poet and lyricist Nikos Gatsos, originally announced in June last year.

Police and the fire service are investigating a fire that destroyed a car on the old Megalopolis-Kalamata national highway in Arcadia, after finding a burned body in the driver's seat, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported Tuesday.
According to information, the car had been parked at the highway exit leading to Megalopolis.

A 4.1-magnitude earthquake shook the area southeast of the village of Dimitsana, located in the region of Arcadia in the central Peloponnese on Thursday afternoon.
According to the automatic solution provided by Athens' Geodynamic Institute, the tremor was recorded at a depth of 11.5 kilometers.
No injuries or damages were reported. 

Back for the second year after its successful debut in 2017, the Para-Tyro Festival in South Kynouria in the Peloponnese's Arcadia region, is a multifaceted event with concerts, screenings, sports activities and workshops, taking place in different parts of the seaside town. Highlights this year include the inaugural blues and rock concert by local act Big Nose Attack on Thursday at 10.30 p.m.

Firemen rescued a man yesterday after he was trapped under the rubble of his house which partially collapsed in the region of Nestani in Arcadia, southern Greece.

Rescue teams were also conducting a search to see if anyone else was trapped in the debris.

It was not clear why the house collapsed.

The risk of forest fires across the country is very high on Monday, according to the General Secretariat for Civil Protection which highlighted the prefectures of Attica, Evia, Viotia, Fthiotida, Fokida, Larissa, Magnisia, Corinthia, Argolida, Arkadia, Lakonia and Hania as the most vulnerable - at level 4.