Tourism in Greece

Greece, swarming with museums, is definitely the place to be for International Museum Day! Concerts, guided tours and workshops are planned around the country with admission to most cultural institutions free.

Archeological Association of Acharnes

The Organization of Youth and Sports (ONA) is inviting people for picnics around Athens with guided tours around Philopappou hill, Lykavittos and Ilission Park. Highlights of the tour will be the picnic points.

Participants are invited to be wearing comfortable clothes and shoes and to have a packed lunch with them.

Meeting points:

A day after the entire municipal council of Tilos resigned in protest at the lack of medical professionals, a doctor was dispatched to the tiny Dodecanese island late on Friday.

By Costas Kantouris

After a seven-month quest to escape war in Syria, Dia Kasam thought she and her two sons were finally on their way, headed by train into Serbia and from there on to Germany to reunite with her sick husband and their three other children.

The Athens Concert Hall has planned a free tour, for the 16th and 17th of May, between 12:00 and 18:00. This action is titled “Open House Athens 2015″ and is undertaken by the Open House Greece NGO.

The Eleftherios Venizelos Athens International Airport (Attiki Odos, Spata) presents two important exhibitions; the first presents the history of Athens and its environment, as well as the history of modern art in the public space, and the second presents video-projects by five known contemporary Greek artists on the theme of “the journey”.

Municipal workers on Thursday removed graffiti from the facade of the building hosting the Archaeological Society in central Athens.

The neoclassical structure, which is located at the junction of Panepistimiou and Omirou streets, has been vandalized several times.

Loutraki, a seaside resort on the Gulf of Corinth, is just 81 km west of Athens. The name Loutraki means bath, bath-house or spa, derived from the natural springs in the area. The health springs the area is famous for draw tourists, but the area offers so much more…

For health tourism

By Nikos Roussanoglou

The Greek coast guard and port police rescued dozens of migrants in six separate incidents over the course of less than 24 hours, the Athens-Macedonian New Agency reported on Tuesday.