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City Life | Feb 2025
Delve into this beautifully curated collection of books and objects in Kolonaki and get wonderfully lost in the world of words
Booktique is one of those magical places that makes one thankful that passionate people are still prepared to brave the harsh winds of modern commerce to share their passion and expertise with lucky re...
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City Life | Feb 2025
Visit this cabinet of cartographic wonders on Voulis and learn wonderful things about the world around us and how to explore it.
Anavasi Maps, located in the culinary hotspot of Voulis near Syntagma is a feast for the eye and the soul that will inspire a deeper connection with the places we live and explore. The shop is the ti...
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Food & Drink | Dec 2024
Angeliki Grazia is on a quest. What started as a heritage project to revive oft-forgotten varieties of Naxos’ winemaking culture, ended up with Grazia as a firm advocate of not only preserving these ancient varieties, but also of highlighting their role in the future of Greek wine-making. At the picturesque Terra Grazia winery in Kato Sa...
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Food & Drink | Dec 2024
Hellenic history and art tells us that wine was a fundamental cultural pillar of Ancient Greece. But many fine varieties have been lost to the ages. Amanda Dardanis meets Kostas Bakasietas, the man who is raising extinct Greek varieties from the Dead.
Greeks, it is said, were the first to produce wine.
Certainly, we gave th...
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Culture | Dec 2024
The Anglo-Hellenic League and the British School at Athens present a lecture by Prof. Islam Issa on The Alexandrian Dream on Monday 9 December 2024. Prof. Islam Issa, whose book Alexandria: The City that Changed the World (London: Sceptre, 2023) won the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024, will speak about ‘The Alexandrian Dream’.
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People | Dec 2024
India Hicks’ heartfelt tribute to her remarkable mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, offers an intimate window into an extraordinary life intertwined with history, royalty, and timeless elegance. Lady Pamela: My Mother's Extraordinary Years as Daughter to the Viceroy of India, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen, and Wife of David Hicks, is a visual biog...
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City Life | Dec 2024
If you’ve been sprucing up and decluttering your family’s closets, this quick guide on where you can donate what might come in handy! And if you have a bit of time and a few hugs to spare, we’ve got that covered too!
AGALIA
Agalia, translates as an embrace, and more than baby paraphernalia, it is that warm human touch that these abandoned ...
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City Life | Nov 2024
In our New Athenians series, artist Diane Alexandre shares her creative inspirations with us and tells us why for her Athens is a city of constant opportunities.
ABOUT YOU
What do you do?
I am a sculptor and céramicist with a background in literature and graphic design.
About the Ceramics Scene in Athens -- Sum up how ...
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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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