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The Summer Nostos Festival goes online this year
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The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is presenting events online including fascinating discussions and cultural events to enjoy from the comfort and safety of home.
Among them, the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD on Friday, May 8, 12-12:45 PM, holds its weekly discussion online. This week’s theme, C...
Read Full Post »Acropolis with masks and social distancing
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Since May 18th Greece has reopened the Acropolis and all the outdoor archaeological sites throughout the country .
The ancient hill of Acropolis was closed to the public for sixty days due to the coronovirus...
Read Full Post »Zeus Xenios and Greek Philoxenia
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The Greek word Philoxenia, literally translated as a “friend to a stranger”, is widely perceived to be synonymous to hospitality.
For Greeks it is much deeper than that. It is an unspoken cultural law that shows generosity and courtesy to strangers.
Greeks are enormously generous when inviting others to their h...
Read Full Post »3D Walk through the Ancient Glory in Greece
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As you walk around the overgrown site of Ancient Olympia, birth-place of the Olympic games, you may visualize in 360º and 3D the glorious, inspiring monuments that once stood there, by using the Mobile Optical Illusions is the market leader of AR & VR Apps for 3D Reconstructions of Archaeological Sites.
While in Olympia don’t miss to enter Virtually in the temple of Zeus and sta...
Read Full Post »Scent of Ancient Greece for Visitors: Walk Around Acropolis and the Athens monuments through the Botanical Greek Flora
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Micromeria Acropolitana was first collected in 1906 from the Acropolis, Athens and considered extinct until its rediscovery in 2006, a hundred years later. Today It has survived in its original habitat, the natural rock of the hill.
The Micromeria Acropolitana (Lamiaceae) ...
Read Full Post »Meet the Evzones, the Emblem of Greece's Independence Day
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Thousands of people attended the parade throughout the Greek ciriws and the islands waving the Greek flag, while many children were dressed as tsoliades. Tsoliades, the Evzones, were the meblem of this years' celebration , which was a Nati...
Read Full Post »The Greek Independence Day event, White House 2018
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President Donald J. Trump Proclaimed March 25, 2018, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy, as released by the White House and whas twitted by @realDonaldTrump on March 25
Yeah! Explore the Greek Cities with your SightRunning Shoes
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Forget tourist buses and pre-arranged hours for guided tours. Now all the city and its most beautiful spots are within your reach in the most economic and ecological way.
Whet...
Read Full Post »Free entrance on Acropolis Museum on March 25th, Greek Independence Day
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The Acropolis Museum will celebrate Independence Day on Sunday, March 25, with free entrance to the permanent exhibits, the current exhibition on the Eleusinian mysteries, and other events, it said on Thursday, according to ANA
The museum will be open from 09:00 to 20:00 while ongoing events include the following:-
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Read Full Post »The Unthinkable Treasures the Metro Works in Thessaloniki Unearthed
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Clay figurines found at Station Syntrivani
More than 300,000 ancient finds have come to light following works on the Thessaloniki metro including a headless statue of Aphrodite which made headlines last week, dozens of ancient coins, mosaics and funerary structures.
A catal...
Read Full Post »American War Veterans Use Ancient Greek Epics, Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, to Cope
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