Athens

Most parts of Greece suffered from drought in June, data from Meteo.gr by the National Observatory of Athens showed on Tuesday. 

Its network of weather stations across the country recorded a severe lack of rainfall combined with very high temperatures. 

In some places, like in the center of Athens, there was not a single rain drop recorded for the whole of June. 

June 20, 2009 seems like a good starting point to be searching for the "ground zero" of the tourism boom in the central Athens neighborhood of Koukaki. But is it the only one?

It started as a queen’s vision and evolved into the country’s only botanical and at the same time historical garden, but mainly into an irreplaceable island of greenery in the concrete chaos of Athens.

This June was the hottest in Greece since 2010 by a significant margin, according to data from 53 meteorological stations by the National Observatory of Athens.

Meteo.gr reports that compared to the 2010-2019 average, this June saw significant positive temperature deviations across the country. 

London-based artist Christina Mitrentse's interactive installation-performance "Censored" explores banned books borrowed from four libraries, constructing a temporary Metalibrary at Greece's National Library (364 Syngrou) in a co-production of the Athens Epidaurus Festival and the Municipal Theater of Piraeus.

A Natsu Matsuri summer festival occurred late last week in Athens' public Japanese Park, in the Pangrati neighborhood. The event, which brought together Athenian locals, tourists, and Japanese people, is rooted in the Shinto tradition and is meant to honor the spirits of the people's ancestors.  

The 13th Athens Energy Summit is taking place on Thursday and Friday this week at Hotel Grande Bretagne, at Syntagma Square. 

Opening proceedings on Thursday will be a speech by Greece's Environment and Energy Minister Thodoros Skylakakis. 

For more information visit athensenergysummit.gr.

The Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Enterprise Greece and the Greek Exporters Association, in association with Eurobank, are organizing an information event titled "Discover China." 

The event, which is being held on Tuesday at SEV headquarters (5 Xenofontos, Athens), will be in English with a physical presence. 

Athens has so many restaurants nowadays, but does it have good ones? Without a doubt. Does it have enough decent restaurants? No. I think we need to dispel the myth: There's only a small number of good restaurants in what is a small market.

With sales in the residential areas running, having reached almost 100% for the beachfront residences and 65% for the apartments that went on the market at the end of 2023, and the individual developments within the area gradually locking in, the pieces of the puzzle of the Hellenikon mega investment are now coming together at an accelerated pace.