Athens

Some 240 antiquities and historical items from 27 museums in Greece and abroad and four private collections comprise the new exhibition on the 338 BC Battle of Chaeronea, which opens at the Museum of Cycladic Art (MCA) in Athens on Thursday.

Toll prices }will be hiked by an average of 7-7.5% as of January 1, according to the new rates published by the six operators of Greece's national highways, in line with an agreement with the Infrastructure Ministry.

This means, for example, that the Athens - Thessaloniki trip for a regular sized family car will increase by 2.20 euros to €33.55.  

City history and architecture buffs are watching with mounting alarm as the last vestiges of an important piece of Athens' identity are being snuffed out with the rapid demolition of old stand-alone buildings, and especially residences from the interwar period.

The areas of the country where home sales prices have now exceeded - indeed far exceeded - the previous all-time high of the market, recorded during 2008, are increasing on a steady basis.

Five years after its arrival in Athens, the Masoutis supermarket chain has been operating its first "Grand Store" in the capital since last week. The goal is to have its second one in Attica, at Treis Gefyres, operating within a year, with the investment plan providing for two more large stores in Athens in the next phase.

A group of 48 residents and two grassroots groups have lodged an appeal against the creation of a controversial administrative park on the grounds of a former ammunition factory in the eastern Athens suburb of Dafni-Ymittos.

More than 150 new store lease agreements are have been recorded in 2023 in the most popular spots of the country, both in Attica and in other cities, such as Thessaloniki or Patra.

This year's AMVER Awards Gala Dinner is taking place next Friday, December 15, at the Athens' Athenaeum Intercontinental Hotel, organized by the International Propeller Club of the United States, Port of Piraeus, in collaboration with the United States Embassy in Greece and the United States Coast Guard.

Three metro stations in central Athens that had been closed while visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's motorcade was travelling through the capital were reopened on Thursday afternoon.

Police said the Evangelismos, Megaro Moussikis and Katechaki stations were open to the public.

Police have ordered the closure of downtown Athens' Syntagma metro station as part of security measures surrounding the ongoing visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Athens.

Trains will pass through the station, but will not make stops until further notice from the police.