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• Gardens & Parks

  
  National Gardens Created and designed by Queen Amalia in the 19th century, the National Gardens provide a pleasant green haven in the heart of bustling downtown Athens....

• Athens In Your Pocket in iPaper

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• BOOK PICKS - Greece in Print

  Fiction Zorba the Greek. Nikos Kazantzakis, Faber Fiction A young English writer (the narrator) inherits a mine on the island of Crete and travels there taking with him Alex Zorba, a middle aged man as an aide to run the mine....

• Museum Free Admission Days & Concesions

  Admission to museums and archaeological sites is free the following days:6 March (in memory of Melina ...

• Apokries (Greek carnival)

  
  If you love to party then Athens between Sunday 24th January and Sunday 14th February is the place for you....

• Famous Greeks [2]: Melina Merkouri

  
  Actress, singer and politician, Melina, as she is universally known, was born into a family of politicians....

• Athens Portraits [9]: Recession-proof in Kolonaki?

  
  “Crisis? What crisis?” you might think if you find yourself in the fashionable streets around Kolonaki Square....

• Sailing & Yachting

   Second only to Norway in length of coastline in Europe and tenth in the entire world, Greece has always had a close relationship with the sea....

• Athens & Epidaurus Festival

  
  What really sets Athens apart from other world capitals is its steadfast devotion to the arts. This has become increasingly evident over the years, with a myriad of festivals cropping up, ranging from the Athens Video Art Festival, to the Athens Photography Festival....

• Athens Portraits [6]: Greek families hit the beach

  
  Bright and early every Sunday morning in the summer, Plateia Egyptou in downtown Athens sees a gathering of the clans with a difference....

• Athens Portraits [8]: Bouzouki Man

  
  He’s as Greek as you can get – and fiercely proud of it. A creature of the night, you’re unlikely to see Bouzouki Man in his full glory before 1am....

• Top 10 unknown Greek islands

  
  The readers’ response to last issue’s top 10 of popular Greek islands has been impressive....

• Athens Portraits [5]: Touristas Gormless

  
  There’s a certain kind of visitor to Greece that seems to be under the impression that a brain is not essential for travel....

• Famous Greeks [3]: Georgios Papanikolaou

  
  Georgios Papanikolaou (1883-1962)Georgios Papanikolaou is the doctor who discovered the revolutionary ‘Pap’ smear test used to this day regularly by hundreds of millions of women as a means of early detection of cervical cancer....