Plan Ahead for the Athens and Epidaurus Festival
Spread across 5 months, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival has always marked the beginning of the summer cultural season. Expect an adrenaline-cha...
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Salad Days: 6 Super Healthy Recipes to get Beach R...
Salads shouldn’t be side-lined… let these wonderfully light and nutrit...
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Meet Andrea Gilbert of Athens Pride: What makes an...
“We are in a better place,” smiles Andrea Gilbert, the driving force o...
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Gaitis exhibition at Theoharikis extended to October 2023
What: Few have captured the alienation of modern drudgery as poignantly as Yannis Gaïtis. His signature motif, the Little Man, a stylized and archetypal male figure in a jacket, tie, and hat is one of the most recognizable ideograms of modern Greek art. Using just black, white, and primary colors, he humorously critiqued the impacts of automation a...
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Get ready for an outpouring of creative energy at The Rolex Art Festival this Week
Rolex chose Athens to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. The main event and the pre-festival from May 22 to 28, 2023 in multiple venues across Athens feature a dazzling array of works by 60 Rolex protégés and mentors – many of them living legends in the arts. Get ready for a week of perfo...
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Victoria Hislop’s Island Affair with Crete
From moonlight pilgrimages to sacred monasteries and London-worthy fish tavernas, best-selling author Victoria Hislop shares her best Insider secrets about Crete - the magnetic Greek island that has stolen her heart. How - and when - did your deep connection with the island of Crete begin? My first visit was in 1980. I was tra...
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Maria Callas: The Sacred Flame
In her centenary year, Helena Matheopoulos pays tribute to Maria Callas whose operatic and personal style as the ultimate diva of her generation, coupled with almost endless drama and intrigue in her personal life, only contributed to her appeal as opera’s most iconic phenomenon. Forty five years after her death, Greek-born Ma...
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Athens Insider’s Top 5 Culture Picks for May 2023
From literary salons to art installations and street parties, we recommend the best of arts and culture to be found throughout the city this month. New Contemporary Art Installations at SNFCC This month the Stavros Niarchos Foundation welcomes two separate art installations that each add a layer of inspiration and eng...
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Nelly’s Revolutionary Photography
What: The Benaki Museum pays tribute to photographer Elly Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (1899-1998) with a retrospective exhibition to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary since her death. Better known as Nelly’s, the exhibition is categorized by the three cities that shaped her photographic point-of-view: her student years in Dresden, her arrival in A...
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Your green guide to vegan eating in Athens
Move over gyros, veg burgers and dairy-free ice-creams are here to stay. Millennial socio-entrepreneurs are creating a new culinary trend that has surprisingly caught on in meat-obsessed Greece. Serving everything from gluten-free pastries to plant-based steaks, here are 7 of the best vegan restaurants in Athens: The Vegan Vand...
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5 islands in less than 3 hours from Athens
As a general rule, many Athenians prefer to holiday on Greek islands that are convenient to get to – but far away from “the masses”. Amanda Dardanis lists her favourite Athenian Boltholes – all within 3 hours of the capital. (Just don’t tell too many others!) Serifos There’s been a quiet buzz building about the island of Serifo...
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A new museum showcasing Alekos Fassianos’ iconic visual style opens in Athens
The Alekos Fassianos Museum, a rare example in which the complicity between artist and architect underpins the dialogue between the works and the space that houses them, opened its doors to the public on April 26, 2023. Showcasing the artist's visual treatise on everyday Greek life in a building designed by his longtime friend, architect ...
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