News | Mar 2023
Book now to avail of Qatar Airways' tantalizing fares to 95 destinations!
Qatar Airways spoils its Privilege Club Members with yet another fabulous promotion. The Members Only Offer runs from 7-17 March 2023, with Privilege Club Members enjoy a discount of up to 20% off. Enjoy exclusive Member Only fares to selected destinati...
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News | Feb 2023
Fans of The English Patient will soon get their wish to see Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite on screen for the first time in 25 years. The pair will star in star in a Bleecker Street production on Homer’s ancient classic “The Odyssey”, The Return directed by Uberto Pasolini. The film is planned for release in 2024.
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Insider Stories | Feb 2023
Give wings to your travel dreams. Avail of Qatar Airways Flash Sale to travel to your bucket-list destinations from Athens and Mykonos!
This offer is valid for Economy and Business Class tickets from Athens and Mykonos and to Australia, Singapore, South Africa, Bali, Zanzibar, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Seychelles and other destinations.
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Culture | Feb 2023
Behind the revelry and colourful floats, carnivals have always been an occasion for parody. A peek into Greek floats from the past decade where Carnival street parties were an excuse to decry political and social injustice.
Who were vilified? What were the issues that consumed Greece over the past decade? In the midst of the c...
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Culture | Feb 2023
What: Maria Iliou's documentary film and accompanying photographic exhibition at the Benaki Museum revisits the sensitive subject of the The Megali Idea or the Great Idea - the irredentist concept of establishing a Greek state that would include the large Greek populations that were still under Ottoman rule, after Greek independence. Through widely...
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Culture | Feb 2023
What: Inspired by the Eleusinian Mysteries, secret religious practices held in Elefsina during antiquity to honour the goddess Demetra,the festival’s cultural agenda is built around three thematic axes: Environment, Labour, and People and Society, and includes 130 artworks, 465 events (Mysteries) in 30 different city sites, by 192 Greek and 137 int...
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Culture | Feb 2023
What: The Goulandris Museum wows with a brilliant exhibition on New Realism - the movement founded in 1960s France, considered by many the European counterpart to Pop Art. Spearheaded by art critic Pierre Restany and artist Yves Klein, Nouveau Realisme was all about finding new ways of perceiving the real. Works by the most prominent Nouveaux Rea...
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Culture | Feb 2023
What: Acclaimed photographer Vangelis Kyris collaborates with master embroidery artist Anatoli Georgiev to showcase the wealth of Greece's sartorial traditions. Kyris' portraits of contemporary Athenians wearing historic garments were then printed on fabric, with Georgiev bringing the 128 costumes alive with his extraordinary needlework.
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Travel | Feb 2023
Yiannis Karakasis MW recommends the sophistication of nuanced, full-bodied reds to transport you to a place of romance and beauty. Each sip, he promises, is a dance between the delicate notes of fruit and the bold embrace of tannins - a symphony of flavours that will warm even the coldest of Athenian February days!
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Hospitality | Feb 2023
The letter S spells seduction this Valentine’s Day at Grande Bretagne with a slew of romantic indulgences sure to set your heart racing!
Spa at GB Spa
Surrender to the nurturing embrace of the much-awarded GB Spa, or offer a gift voucher to a dear one. The pampering here is next level, designed to salve and soften the tough...
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Culture | Feb 2023
In a society that celebrates beauty and perfection, Athens Insider recommends one of the books long-listed for the Runciman 2023 prize - Exposed by Caroline Vout. With chapters enticingly titled Bodybuilding and Sex and Society, classicist Caroline Vout topples our lofty notions of timeless beauty. She reaches beyond chiselled models of m...
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Culture | Feb 2023
Curated by Katerina Gregos, Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) explores the impact of digital technology and capitalism on human relationships, examining how the Internet and social media have transformed love and social interactions. A brilliant exhibition that explores the pathologies associated with the commodificatio...
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