Members of the Delian League

The Night Museum initiative, which aims to showcase the country's rich cultural history and unique historical sites to tourists in a completely new setting after dark, has concluded its inaugural summer season with remarkable success in tourism hotspot Antalya.

In a poignant observance of World Animal Day, the volunteers at the Alkioni, the Aegean Wildlife Hospital on the island of Paros, are once again celebrating the return of the common buzzard to its natural habitat. Since its establishment in 1995, Alkioni has cared for over 17,000 wild animals, primarily birds, who have found their way to the sanctuary in various states of distress.

The promotion of the island of Naxos as an ideal sustainable tourism destination for the British market was the aim of the familiarization trip (fam trip) organized by the UK & Ireland National Tourism Organization, with the participation of four executives of British tour operators on the island.

The renowned Archaic statue "Kore of Thira," dating back to the 7th century BC, will receive a new support base for better stability and visibility. The statue will be featured in the exhibition "Kykladitisses: Untold Stories of women in the Cyclades," organized by the Cyclades Antiquities Ephorate and the Museum of Cycladic Art from December 11 to May 4, 2025. 

Today at noon, former Queen of Greece, Anna-Maria, along with her daughter Theodora and her fiancé, Matthew Kumar, paid a visit to the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Ieronymos.

The population of asylum-seekers who remain in specially built structures on the islands is reportedly constantly rising in tandem with the daily interception of migrant trafficking boats by the Greek Coast Guard.

I think I have a soft spot for Didim. On the way from the Izmir airport to this well-kept secret of Turkish summer vacationists, I remember the days long gone by. It must have been about 35 years or so when I spent countless days at the ancient site of Miletus.

The European Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments (ECBCMM) completed one of its most important projects over the summer: the conservation of the ecclesiastical equipment of two churches of Imbros (Gokceada in Turkish), the birthplace of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and 42 portable icons from the Church of the Virgin Mary of Tenedos (Bozcaada in Turkish).

The cruise industry has voiced its opposition to the fee the government said it will impose as of 2025 on cruise ports of call, reaching up to 20 euros per person for Mykonos and Santorini.

Multimedia maritime exhibition "Crafts of the Sea" reopened last week for its second and final outing at the Goethe Institute in Athens until September 21.