Climbing to the top of the Acropolis of Athens, the birthplace of democracy, has always been a feat for the brave. Never more so, perhaps, than in recent summers when the city has sweated through long ...

Sebastien Ogier has been included on a 12-car Rally1 entry list for the Acropolis Rally Greece round of the World Rally Championship next month. The eight-time world champion has been confirmed on ...

It sits virtually on top of remnants of the city’s fifth-century BCE walls, which once enveloped the Acropolis, the Agora public space and the Temple of Zeus. Finished in 2002, the bank was ...

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Credit: Public Domain It was May 30, 1941 when two teenage Greek boys, Manolis Glezos and Lakis Santas, climbed up the Acropolis and took down the Nazi flag. It was the very first of many brave acts ...

Sehri Iftar Time for Monemvasia - Month of Ramadan 2025: Managing your fasting schedule with a detailed Sehri and Iftar times calendar for Monemvasia. This comprehensive guide provides accurate ...

Glezos and Santas, bound by close friendship and a shared resolve to resist, devised their plan after spotting the swastika waving defiantly over the Acropolis from the Zappeion. Determined to strike ...

The Acropolis of Cumae as seen from the lower city. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons / AlexanderVanLoon CC BY-SA 3.0 The ancient Greeks of Chalkis were the first to colonize the mainland of today’s ...

Towering over the modern town is the acropolis of Lindos that was fortified successively by the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Knights of St. John and the Ottomans… The Doric Temple of ...

Michal Peleg, a 65-year-old Israeli woman, vanished on June 4 in Kavousi, Crete. Greek and Israeli teams, using drones and ground units, are conducting a large-scale search to find her, with the ...