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City Life | Sep 2021
When not canvassing for political campaigns, Tel Aviv-based communications strategist and University professor Nimrod Fridberg is busy scouring Athens’ bylanes for the best buys to impress his powerful clientele and students alike! So enthused is he with the bargains that Nimrod suggests making shopping therapy the number one priority whe...
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City Life | Jun 2021
What: RUINS, exclusively commissioned by Carwan Gallery is finally ready to be unveiled in Athens in June 2021
Ruins features a series of works that re-signify architectural fragments belonging to different historical periods and which refer to the most significant archaeological sites placed in the Mediterranean basin.
The project relates some...
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Insider Stories | Jun 2021
Patisseur Stelios Parliaros shares a summer salad that hits just the right notes as temperatures soar!
Ingredients: (10 servings)
4.4 lbs. (2kgs.) tomatoes
8.8 oz. (250 gr.) feta
1 bunch basil
1 bunch mint
1 bunch fresh coriander
Lemon zest
7 oz. (200 gr.) cucumber
5 barley rusks
Extra virgin Greek o...
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People | May 2021
The new 8-part series, Athens Unpacked premieres with its first two episodes on 19 May. Produced by Pod.gr for This is Athens. A brand new podcast series that’s designed to decode our captivating capital—with acclaimed author and Athens-based anthropologist Sofka Zinovieff getting under the city's tangled chara...
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City Life | May 2021
The B&E Goulandris Foundation welcomes summer 2021 with 58 new works in its collection.
Wander among your favourite works of El Greco, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Georges...
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Culture | May 2021
What: The Athens Concert Hall presents a magnificent concert for the 30 years since its founding at the Odeon of Herod Atticus , with the legendary conductor Zubin Mehta, and the internationally renowned violinist Pinchas Zukerman performing with the acclaimed Orchinos May (Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino). A bucket-list event not to be mi...
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City Life | May 2021
The Queer Archive Festival is back again from 3 to 6 June 2021, hosting a great celebration of Athens’ rich and vibrant queer culture, with the support of Onassis Stegi for a second consecutive year.
Designed to celebrate the very best of queer arts and culture, The Queer Archive Festival raises the curtain on another rich pro...
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Culture | May 2021
From Pheidias to Michaelangelo, few materials signal high art more than marble—the medium of sculptors. And for Swiss sculptor Tom von Kaenel, it was his quest to work with antiquity’s most prized marble that led him to Naxos, where his sublime and sinuous creations honour the pure lines of the earliest Cycladic sculptors.
The...
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Culture | Apr 2021
Haven’t shopped for Easter gifts yet? We’ve got you covered! This Easter might be a muted affair but that shouldn’t stop you from adding some colour and cheer to your table. Go through our curated finds and Greek Easter gift ideas to pamper your best friends, family, guests, hostesses, and colleagues with gifts that they'll actually put t...
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City Life | Apr 2021
Diana Farr Louis unpacks a tried and tested communal way of living where foreigners, slomads, retirees and families who are dreaming of a new existence in Greece are being seduced by fast internet speeds and the gentler groove of village life.
“With the pandemic, people around the world are realizing how much they ne...
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News | Apr 2021
Apartments, penthouses and maisonettes in the Greek capital have seldom been combined with more class and comfort: The One Athens project is giving one of the most prestigious buildings of Athens’ recent past a new look.
Experience One Athens and buy a new property with Engel & Völkers Greece
One Athens is a unique project ...
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Culture | Apr 2021
When it comes to switching up the carefree trope of the sun-drenched Greek island, mystery writer Jeffrey Siger regularly gets away with murder. In his latest page-turning thriller – A Deadly Twist – Siger has planted the fertile island of Naxos – fabled home of Dionysus - firmly in his cross-hairs. Here, the Manhattan-Mykonos-based scrib...
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