Athens

Over 15,000 bikers will take part in the 23rd Athens Bike Race which will be held on Sunday 17 April with starting point the Syntagma square.

Athens mayor Giorgos Kaminis will give the start signal at 09:30 for the 11.5km run and at 9.50am for the 3km race.

Athens Bike Race is organised by the Culture, Sports and Youth organsation of the Athens’ municipality.

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6,000 refugees and migrants are living in squalid conditions at the Hellinikon area in Attica, where the abandoned 2004 Olympic facilities are standing. Just a few meters from Poseidonos Avenue, running along the coast line of Attica, lies a modern day ‘Greek flavela’, with most people in the area completely oblivious of its existence.

Open House is one of the most important global institutions for the promotion of architecture. The event will be held in Athens on April 16-17 giving visitors the opportunity to get acquainted with the architectural gems of the city.

A migrant tried to set himself on fire in downtown Athens, Thursday. The individual was a member of the group that marched towards Syntagma Square, Wednesday with the intent to squat outside the Greek parliament, before they reconsidered after being threatened by police with deportation.

The ability to watch 360 degree videos on youtube has opened up a whole new experience for online content consumers. It allows the viewer to get a truly immersive feeling of the area being covered. It is also the new trend in marketing in the tourism industry. The young bikers of ‘Experience Greece’ recorded a video to promote the beauties of Athens.

One of the Athens Acropolis’ finest and best-preserved korai – the archaic statues depicting young women – will be exhibited at the Roman Courtyard of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg on Friday.

The statue, which leaves Greece for the first time, is travelling to Russia in the framework of a cultural exchange program organised for the Year of Greece and Russia 2016.

The Athens Science Festival (ASF) opens its door to public on Tuesday at the City of Athens Technopolis Centre in Gazi, for the third consecutive year, running from 5 to 10 April with a focus on “Evolving with Science”.

More than 5,350 refugees and immigrants are staying in the passenger terminals of Greece’s biggest port, Piraeus, creating a suffocating situation which after the recent violent incidents has been out of control. About 300 people have already been transferred in Ilia and Ioannina, but on Friday the refugees were reluctant to go to refugee centers outside Attica district.

The Bulgarian capital Sofia is the fifth most dangerous city in Europe and the most dangerous in the European Union, a study shows.

Moscow, St Petersburg, Kiev and Belgrade have bottomed the personal safety ranking in a recent report of US think-tank Mercer.