Tourism 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.

A Mykonos businessman on Thursday filed a lawsuit with the COuncil of State (CoS), Greece’s supreme court, calling for the cancellation of the VAT hike on Greek islands. The businessman states that the ministerial decision calling for the gradual abolition of the low VAT rate for islands in the Aegean is contrary to European law.

Thirty seven antiquities from an illegal excavation were found and confiscated in Negros cave on the island of Astypalea during a police investigation.

The confiscated antiquities are dated back to the Late Neolithic Period, the Classical and the Hellenistic Era and the Late Antiquity.

An innovative 24-hour performance, titled “Mount Olympus”, will be the highlight of the Dimitria Festival at the Thessaloniki Music Hall on October 10, the largest cultural event in northern Greece. The work is by blind Belgian artist Jan Fabre and takes a modern look at ancient tragedy using 28 performers.

Another 2,499 refugees arrived aboard the “Eleftherios Venizelos” at the port of Piraeus early on Wednesday. A little later, the “Ariadni” ferry carrying 1,541 passengers arrived, along with a “tera jet” with another 1,703 refugees.

The Greek Coast Guard has rescued at least 303 refugees over the last 24 hours in the sea region of Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Agathonissi and Kos.

Dozens of animals are in danger of extinction due to the destruction of biodiversity, illegal hunting, pollution and climate change. A precious part of nature is wiped out with each disappearance. In Greece, there are efforts to protect wildlife thanks to the efforts of groups like WWF Greece.

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The local community knows Argyro, the social monk seal that enjoys lounging on sunchairs on Samos, but it seems that the international press from the New York Times to London’s Daily Mail has just discovered this friendly creature. The docile creature went viral when Paul van Loock, from Belgium, uploaded a video on his Facebook page!

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A documentary aiming to promote the cultural side of the sacred island of Delos, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will be screend on Mykonos on Saturday, October 3.

The 25-minute film “Delos 2015” will be screened on Mykonos on Saturday, October 3.

Eric Kempson, his wife Philippa and their daughter Elleni live on the Greek island of Lesbos. For months they have struggled to give the most basic of humanitarian assistance to thousands of desperate people arriving in boats from Turkey. This is their story.

The Cycladic island of Tinos will feature in BBC’s documentary “This is Greece” which will be broadcast in the US, UK and Australia.

The filming took place on 17 and 18 September with the BBC crew visiting some of the island’s major sites and traditional villages including Isternia, Kardiani, Volax and Triantaros and the Temple of Poseidon and Amphitrite in Kionia.