Vasilissis Sofias Avenue

Traffic restrictions will take effect Saturday and Sunday in central Athens due to the "Race for the Cure" run and walk.
The event is part of a global initiative to support women who have dealt with breast cancer.

Students of the Delos-Dimitra Hatoupi Drama School present the final weekend of "The Stones Speak," a cultural and tourism initiative directed by Efi Theodorou. Watch as theater students read the works of major Greek philosophers including Sophocles and Plato, as well as Homer, in Greek, English and French.

The Athens Gardens Festival features a lineup of small chamber music ensembles that will be performing in the mornings, starting at 11 a.m., at the National Garden, and in the evenings, starting at 7.30 p.m., at Eleftherias Park on Vassilissis Sofias Avenue over the course of three days. Admission is free of charge.

College de France historian Patrick Boucheron will deliver a lecture titled "Between Ancient Greece and the Modern World," at the Athens Concert Hall on Thursday, March 28. The lecture, which starts at 7 p.m., is organized in cooperation with the French Embassy and Institute in Athens, and will be in French with simultaneous translation into Greek.

Members of the public hospital workers' union march past the Hilton hotel in Athens on Thursday, in a rally that started at Mavili Square and ended at the Labor Ministry on central Stadiou Street, causing a traffic jam on Vassilissis Sofias Avenue.

The union of Greece's public hospital workers, POEDIN, on Tuesday called a 24-hour strike for Thursday in protest at the looming loss of dozens of patient transporters.

POEDIN is reacting to a government decision outlined in an Interior Ministry draft bill to transfer to local authorities 526 former school guards who had been assigned to help at understaffed public hospitals.

Police on Saturday arrested an unidentified man who entered the front yard of the Serbian Embassy on Vasilissis Sofias Street in central Athens wielding a knife.

The incident occurred at around 9.30 a.m., and led to police and a special negotiator being dispatched to the scene but the intruder was quickly arrested.

Protesting driving instructors caused traffic disruptions in Athens Tuesday by driving in a motorcade from the Transport Ministry in the northern suburbs to the city center.

Athens motorists are in for a headache on Tuesday as driving instructors hold a motorcade from the Transport Ministry in the northern suburbs to the city center.

An annual march to the American Embassy in Athens to mark the anniversary of the November 17, 1973 Athens Polytechnic student uprising against the military dictatorship will affect public transport in and around the city center on Saturday, and especially the metro.