City Life
City Life | Nov 2024
In our New Athenians series, Calliope Karvounis shares her sartorial passions, her itinerant photography career, and her keen curatorial eye in collecting fabrics, traditions and stories from wherever she’s been – a world she has recreated in her fabulous store, Queen Calliope on Merlin Street. Calliope’s personal style radiates through h...
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City Life | Nov 2024
Whatever culinary form your self-care takes, whether it's healthy salads, lovingly made pies, cakes and desserts or excellent coffee, Ohh Boy caters for it.
Situated in the ever on the up area of Pangrati and surrounded by the galleries, clothes shops, bars and restaurants of Archelaou, Ohh Boy is almost as good for people wat...
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City Life | Nov 2024
by Sudha Nair-Iliades
As a competitive sprinter (many moons ago), I never thought I’d be championing walking over running, but into my third marathon this year, I’ve come to enjoy the joys of walking 42.195 kms spread across a good six and a half hours. Once you’re past the sniggers of “anybody could walk a marathon, what’s the big dea...
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City Life | Oct 2024
Athens Continues its Cocktail Ascendence with Athens Bar Week
With multiple bars in the World's 50 Best Bar list again this year and an increasing reputation for innovative and exciting mixology, Athens is already a great place to drink cocktails. Athens Bar Week, starting on Sunday 3rd Nov will up the ante further with a seri...
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City Life | Oct 2024
Skulls, guillotines, mummified remains and over 1500 exhibits related to the most heinous crimes in Greek history. If we've piqued your interest, head to the Criminology Museum at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for a slightly different museum experience.
Criminology Museum
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City Life | Oct 2024
A tranquil and moving walk through the final resting place of some of Greece's most important figures. And a host of guardian cats.
When getting to know a big city there are certain key locations that are going to help the visitor build a rounded picture of the place. Trips to a park or garden, a food market and a museum quick...
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City Life | Oct 2024
Chef Georgianna Hiliadaki tells us about winning 2 Michelin stars, tips for aspiring chefs and her new restaurant Iodio.
About you:
What do you do?
I am Georgianna Hiliadaki, I am the only 2 Michelin star female Greek Chef in the world, with Funky Gourmet restaurant, of which I’m really proud! I love cooking and designing me...
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City Life | Oct 2024
WHAT'S ON: As a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting those who suffer from breast cancer, MANA is hosting "Pink October," an exhibition which features the works of eleven visual artists at the MANA House. This space, which typically functions as a care space for cancer patients and with the main objective of reconnecting women to the nor...
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City Life | Oct 2024
The Gagosian Athens, in partnership with the Henry Moore Foundation, presents a rare opportunity to trace this British sculptor’s evolution, from his early experiments in stone and wood to the monumental sculptures that established his legacy.Moore’s work—marked by its fascination with the human form, natural shapes, and elements like rocks and bon...
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