Dionysos, Greece

Robbers broke into the house of a lawyer in the town of Drosia, east Attica, on Tuesday and stole thousands of euros, valuables and a luxury car parked outside. 

The unknown suspects removed the iron bars from the window leading to the bedroom, breached the aluminum window and then entered the interior of the duplex located on Dervenakion Street. 

The Kokotos Estate in Stamata, east of Athens, is hosting a bazaar on Sunday, November 3, to raise funds for the nonprofit organization Pediatric Trauma Care.

Preschoolers aged 2-4 years old are invited take part in "Young Vines," a Greek and English outdoor education program at the Ktima Kokotou vineyard at Stamata in eastern Attica. Here, participants learn about farming and taking care of animals, as well as playing games and completing tasks that help them develop important skills.

An illegally constructed building in a forested area off the Athens-Sounio coastal road was demolished on Wednesday - the first of some 3,200 unlicensed buildings the government plans to raze in Attica.

The body of former deputy interior minister Giorgos Katsibardis was recovered from a sea area near Limanakia in Drosia, northeast of Athens.

According to reports, the body of the 79-year-old, who was among the founders of PASOK, was found at sea on Thursday morning.

As the capital's firefighting force was doing battle with a large wildfire in Kineta, west of Athens, a separate blaze broke out on Mount Penteli in the northeast on Monday afternoon.

The countdown has started for the Kalogritsas construction group, as Kathimerini understands its companies Toxotis, Omada Kataskevon and others have reached an agreement with rival construction firm Aktor for the latter to take over an initial number of pending projects with a value of more than 100 million euros.

Hundreds of residents of the northern Athens suburbs of Kifissia and Dionysos gathered at the Varibombi interchange on the national highway on Sunday to protest plans for a new lateral toll station in the area and at the Aghios Stefanos interchange.

Dionysus, the son of Zeus, is the god of viticulture, fertility, wine and ecstasy in ancient Greek myth. Music, songs, dance and wine would always be in abundance in the places where he set foot.

For this reason, the rooms of the Dionysos Hotel, located in Alıç, in the Marmaris district of southern Turkey, were labelled with the names of various kinds of wine.

Authorities have ordered all schools in Attica to remain closed on Tuesday due to heavy snowfall on Monday night that caused only a few minor disruptions to traffic and public transport on Tuesday morning.