Tourism in Greece

Tourists will need to dig deeper into their pockets to visit iconic Greek sites

The Central Archaeological Council approved a proposal by the Ministry of Culture to increase admission prices for archaeological sites and museums in Greece as of January 1, 2016, based on each site’s numbers of visitors.

The highest entrance tickets will be at the iconic Parthenon at the Acropolis of Athens and the Knossos Palace on Crete.

Specifically:

75-year old missing French tourist found dead on Crete

The 75-year old missing French tourist was found dead on Sunday morning on Crete island.

The car he had rented was found on the beach Livari, southeast of Agios Nikolaos. His body was found in advanced sepsis in a cliff a few kilometers from where he had left his car.

The causes of his death have not been made known yet.

Athens destroyed: from neoclassical beauty to an ugly box city (video)

A short documentary of 20 mins duration shows what happened to the neoclassical houses that once dotted Athens. These architectural gems around the city slowly fell into decay, destroyed forever.

This short documentary by Nikos Grammatikopoulos, titled “Athens Before the City”, was created in 1980 and received the Critics Choice award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1980…

No place left to die on Greece's Lesbos for refugees lost at sea

He stood on the mud, crows cawing overhead, pointing at unmarked graves. "Here's a mother with her baby. And here's another young woman. Over there, that's a 60-year-old man." 

Buried beneath low mounds of earth, facing Mecca, lay Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian refugees who drowned this summer in the Aegean Sea trying to reach Europe in flimsy inflatable boats. 

3rd Little Paris of Athens… seeking France in Greece

The 3rd Little Paris of Athens multi-festival, that kicked off on Thursday, includes music, photo exhibits, street painting, cafe theater, lectures and more! It runs through to October 18 at various venues around the Athens center. The venues where the event takes place are loctaed on streets with French names.

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