Syntagma Square

Christmas tree lights in Athens to switch on next week

The lights on the Christmas tree in Syntagma Square, central Athens, will be switched on next Tuesday night as part of festivities in the capital that are to last well into January 2019.

"More than 230 events, which will be completely free of charge, will transform the center of Athens and its neighborhoods into a city of angels," said Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis.

Bicycle race to disrupt traffic in Athens on Sunday

The 32nd Round of Athens gets under way from central Syntagma Square at 10 a.m. on Sunday.

The cycling event includes two 10-kilometer routes that will begin at the beginning of Ermou Street and a 5k route starting in front of the Parliament building on Amalias Avenue. All races end at Syntagma Square.

Student march ends in clashes

A hooded youth prepares to throw a petrol bomb during clashes with riot police in central Athens as high school pupils protested a draft bill changing university entrance requirements. The march turned violent when it reached Syntagma Square outside Parliament.

Athens Biennale ANTI | Athens | October 26 - December 9

The theme of the 6th Athens Biennale is "ANTI," and this edition of the event features works by around 100 Greek and foreign artists in which they offer a distinct, idiosyncratic and uneasy screenshot of our political, social and cultural momentum. This time around, the venues of the Biennale are in the vicinity of the Old Parliament near Syntagma Square.

The thread through a journalist's coverage of Greece in crisis

In May 2011, while googling around obscure Greek blogs in search of a fresh voice to liven up a story I planned to do on how Greeks were coping with the early days of post-bailout recession, I came across the musings of one Yanis Varoufakis.

I sent him a note:

Dear Professor Varoufakis.

May 5, 2010, a defining moment in the Greek crisis

Far from the summits, the markets, the polemics and the posturing, the Greek crisis was about ordinary families whose lives were upended. Few more so than the Papathanasopouloses.

I met them on a drizzly day in Patra, southwestern Greece. They had recently lost their daughter Angeliki in the Marfin fire.

Seventy bodies of wildfire victims identified, 14 missing

The fire service said on Monday it has identified 70 of the bodies recovered by rescue teams in the deadly blaze that ripped through a seaside town in east Attica last week, while 14 remained missing.

The previous briefing by the fire department spoke of 59 identified bodies and 25 missing.

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