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What I learnt from spending 5 weeks with refugees in Athens

It was the summer of last year. I found myself with a year off from NHS drudgery and a burning desire to do some fulfilling medical work for those in need. It wasn’t soon after that I had joined a medical voluntary group in the heart of Athens. You may (or may not) be aware of the colo...

Discover the Acropolis of Athens: An Immersive 4K Walking Tour

Embark on a unique journey with this walking tour of the Acropolis. The Acropolis of Athens, Greece, is one of the most iconic symbols of Ancient Greece. Its majesty and historical significance have been captured in an immersive 4K video that takes you on a virtual exploration of this remarkabl...

Embrace the Greek Charm: Your Next Remote Work Destination in Athens

Are you tired of the same old routine, longing for a change of scenery that fuels your productivity and feeds your adventurous spirit? Look no further! Athens — the captivating capital of Greece — is calling out to all digital nomads and remote workers to make their way to its welcoming ...

What were the causes and consequences of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta?

The ancient Greek city-states of Sparta and Athens were the two premier powers in classical Greece. Their bitter rivalry exploded into open warfare during the Peloponnesian Wars, altering the course of Western civilization. This narrative chronicles the origins, major battles and ultimate resolut...

Ancient Athens

Now on to the final hoorah of 3 1/2 months travel, bloody lovely but routine and some unpacking was in sight. After getting the metro in I enjoyed the unreal hustle and bustle of Monastiraki Square and Psryi with views of the Parthenonas and Acropolis before planning to the hay. I ended up getting a...

To All Athens, Ga. Foodies, Exciting News: Taco Mama Opening in Downtown Athens!

Taco Mama is set to make its debut in downtown Athens this September, taking over the space previously occupied by Fuzzy’s Taco Shop at 265 N. Lumpkin St. Known for its delectable array of tacos, burritos, bowls, and hand-shaken margaritas, Taco Mama offers a unique dining ...

Beginners Tips for Buying Real Estate In Athens

The allure of the ancient world seamlessly intertwines with modern day living in Athens, making it an enticing prospect for real estate investors. As Greece’s historic capital witnesses an influx of interest from global investors, understanding the nuances of its real estate market is crucial....

The ultimate guide for the best sandwich in Athens

Although according to Wikipedia “a sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type”, it is certain that there are thousands ...

Voting With Athens Governance Tokens

In the previous Athens Governance articles, we learned what Athens(ATH) tokens are and how to obtain them, first by acquiring STMX tokens on an exchange and then using Uniswap to convert them to ATH tokens. In this final article of the series, you will learn how to vote with your newly-obtained ATH ...

How To Buy Athens Governance Tokens

In this article, we’ll go over the main steps involved in order to obtain Athens tokens to vote for upcoming StormX governance proposals. We’ll cover the following topics: How to Buy Athens(ATH) Tokens Swapping STMX for ATH (Athens) Tokens Buying Athens Tokens There are t...

Two Days in Athens

A week ago our summer holiday started. We planned it about three months ago, and as usual, we organized it with my sister’s family. We usually go to Greece, and stay for about 7–8 days at the Egean Sea. This year’s holiday was on the island of Evia. It is about 90 km north of Athen...

Philosophy Attractions of Athens

Athens, the capital of Greece, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. It also happens to be the home of western philosophy. Yet most tourists are unaware of the significance that certain locations in the city have for the history of philosophy. Friends, and strangers, who...

Welcome to Athens

Use this story to illustrate that moving away from a problem might not make a difference. It can also be used to emphasise the benefit of being positive. Socrates was sitting outside of the gates of Athens when a man came up to him and said, “I am thinking about moving to Athens. Can you ...

5 Amazing Street, Flea, and Food Markets in Athens

One of the best ways to get to know a city and understand its culture is by visiting the local markets. The sights, smells, and colors are often overwhelming and amazing at the same time. Markets give you an insight as to how the local population cooks, eats, shops and lives. By visiting the local m...

Hills, History and Hidden Beauty — 2 Nights in Athens

Despite not being my first holiday, this is the first time I truly feel like I have had some proper downtime. We saw the sights, ate delicious food and spent some much-needed time together just relaxing. I still spent time writing and I found that having a clear headspace allowed for lots of insp...

Gay Athens: What you should know!

Athens is surely one of the most gay friendly destinations in Europe. Even though the Greek Religion influenced greatly the Greek society, the last years the locals have become more open-minded and friendly! Even though you are not allowed to get married in Greece, many hotels and venues are pl...

Is Athens Worth Visiting?

Welcome, fellow adventurers, to the ancient city of Athens, Greece! Steeped in history, mythology, and architectural marvels, Athens stands as a captivating destination that beckons travellers from around the world. As the birthplace of democracy and the cradle of Western civilisation, this enchanti...

A Day in the Heart of Athens.

In the heart of Greece, there stands a city with a rich tapestry of history, culture, and cuisine. This is a tale of a day spent uncovering the secrets of this city, the ancient marvel that is Athens. Athens, with the Acropolis and Piraeus in view. The Acropolis: Walking Through History ...

The Enchanting Allure of Athens: Must-See Attractions and Hidden Gems

Athens is considered the cradle of democracy and modern civilization. The Greek capital can delight at every turn, and its greatest asset, in addition to its extraordinary monuments or excellent cuisine, is hospitality unparalleled anywhere else. [Photo by jimmy teoh from ...

What are the best neighborhoods to invest in Athens?

Diving headfirst into Athens’ real estate world is akin to that unpredictable Dutch rain you never see coming. One day, it’s a sunny opportunity, and the next, it’s a downpour of challenges. But, as with every adventure, the thrills are in those unexpected turns. Athens isn&rsqu...

10 reasons to live in Athens, Greece

Greece is in fact a blessed country for the weather that it has. The only thing that I would change would be to add some humidity in the air, since sometimes it is so dry that it causes irritations. Other than that, the seasons are very well defined and never reach extremes. Of course in the North i...

Book Review on Athens: City of Wisdom by Bruce Clark — written April 21, 2023

I would recommend the book to anyone who’s interested in Greek history. If I could summarize the book in a sentence: it is that Athens has been a microcosm of the entire Greek world since ancient times, and represents what has been going on all over the ancient Greek world. It’s inter...

Addressing Overtourism in Athens

The Greek capital’s Sustainable Approach to Balancing Tourism and City Liveability In recent years, the Greek capital of Athens has experienced a surge in tourism, attracting visitors from all corners of the globe. While tourism brings economic benefits and cultural exchange, it also poses ...

Athens: All the Classics

After some seriously rocky adventures on Kefalonia, I was kind of looking forward to heading back to big-city civilisation. The Greek islands have great potential but they can be quite hard work, especially so if you visit outside of high season. To be honest I felt the least welcome of any place...

Athens-Clarke County created a program to soften the blow of misdemeanors, but students still struggle with it.

Getting arrested for minor in possession of alcohol, possession of marijuana, or similar crimes is a common fear for students at the University of Georgia. Most students under 21 admit to consuming alcohol, and over a third of students admit to using marijuana. Unlike a juvenile conviction...

Beware Of the Pavements In Athens

It is important to watch your step when in Greece, and in Athens in particular because the pavements — sidewalks in US English — are frequently in very bad condition. Is that the reason so many people prefer walking on the road? It is certainly why I do — when safe to do so of c...

Athens: a home

Athens is a home. A city as beautiful as it is ugly. A beloved mistress and a whore. The place where light and darkness love each other for ever. Always torn between what could have been and what is. Like a love story that died too soon. The memories are present, the lost potential still hur...

Blues Under Athens — Story Every Thursday

Lugged my guitar on a crowded tram during rush hour. It’s killing me inside that I can’t…move! Fingers getting stiff and cold and I know, I just know they are going to play tricks on me when an audience is watching. I want to shake some blood into them, but that would mean smac...

A Stroll Through Ancient Athens

After their initial discussion, Socrates and Hippocrates go to Callias’ house, where Protagoras stays. Here they have to persuade a doorkeeper (‘who, because of the great number of sophists… had taken a disliking to visitors’, comments Socrates (Plato, Protagoras 314d)) to l...

Athens City Branding Project

Following the design thinking and the process we followed to get the appropriate insights from the official development indexes of a city to structure our own smart city business model for the city of Athens, our team had to use them properly to make the SWOT model of the metropolis. Athens City ...

Dirty Athens

On any given day, within the little concrete jungle of Athens, Georgia and the thick, green overgrowth that surrounds it, bike emerge spontaneously from a bank of the North Oconee River, or pop through woods at the Chase Street loop exit. You would be hard pressed, however, to actually see a trail, ...

Athens, Here We Come!

I was struggling to decide between two ancient powerhouses: In the red corner, we had Rome. With its beautiful renaissance architecture and awe-inspiring ancient monuments and history. A proud city, with a distinct culture and cuisine. And in the blue corner, we had Athens. The city that found...

Top 10 places to visit in Athens

Athens, the capital of Greece, is a city with a rich history dating back over 3,000 years. It is home to a number of ancient landmarks and cultural attractions, making it a popular destination for tourists from all over the world. Here are the top 10 places to visit in Athens: 1. Acropolis ...

Meditation and Dance Combine in a New Practice That’s Bringing Mindfulness to Athens

A background in dance, corporate burnout and the discovery of healing via mindfulness led Myrto Legaki to her current, ever-evolving path. The Athens-based founder of Free Movement spent 15 years in management consulting before taking a sharp career turn in favor of her passion: healing th...

Creating the city canvas of Athens:

We are Stefania Koutsoupia, Manwlis Nanouris and Romalea Ntregka, post-graduate students of MA in Cultural Management at Panteion University. As part of the Athens Co-Creation City Branding Project and under the lead of Betty Tsakarestou as our professor and p...

Connecting Venice and Athens

Six months ago I moved to the beautiful city of Venice as an exchange student with the Erasmus program. At first everything seemed to me like a whole different world and very different from what I had been used to. The city’s built and special characteristics make it quite a unique case. As ti...

Sparta and Athens: A Tale of Two City-States

Sparta and Athens: The Antithetical City-States of Greece It seems counterintuitive that forces separated by only ninety miles would evolve into oppugnant peoples, with entirely different views on morality, way of life, and government. Athens and Sparta, the greatest city-states of the classical ...

7.4 Plague in Athens

In the spring of 430 King Archidamus again set out from Sparta with an army to devastate the lands of Attica. The Athenian country people again withdrew behind the walls of Athens for safety. But this time the devastation to Athens would be much worse than anything Sparta could inflict on them direc...

Why I’m skeptical of Athens Research

Like X, but cheaper, is not always a winning strategy I’m skeptical of Athens Research. Athens is the most shameless of the Roam Research copycats. They are very open that their goal is to build Roam Research, but free for non-enterprise users. Their name and their branding deliberately evo...

3.4 Coming of Age in Athens

Socrates’ borough or deme was Alopece, located in the immediate suburbs of Athens to the southeast. In his constitutional reforms of 508 BC, Cleisthenes identified and distributed the hundred and thirty-nine demes among ten administrative “tribes,” replacing four mutually hostile k...

From Denver to Athens for Ten Days for $3,000

This is the story of my arduous journey of ten days that brought me from my lower-middle-class suburban Chicago neighborhood to Denver, Colorado to Columbus, Ohio to the town where my son now resides, and then back again. It was an expensive, time-consuming, hot and humid, coughing fit-inducing, ...

Will Athens Become the New Berlin?

Clearly Athens has been going through it as of late. The 2009 financial crisis and the subsequent underthought austerity measures put in place by the IMF crippled the country’s economy, and hit its capital hard. Due to this, things got cheaper for foreigners, and huge amoun...

Where To Watch The Sunset in Athens: 4 Viewpoints for 4 Nights

In May of this year, my two closest friends and I embarked on a ten-day trip to Greece. First, we spend five days in Athens, then we headed on to Paros. We had a wonderful time exploring Greek history and experiencing the famous Greek hospitality for ourselves. We especially had a wonderful ...

Step back in time — The Parthenon, Athens

After my emotional post talking about seeing the Acropolis and Parthenon from afar I thought I would now share our experience of seeing it all up close and personal. We decided to go and visit the site on our third day in Athens and set off nice and early to make sure we had a full day to tak...

Amazing Athens

Our Tarom flight from Bucharest was very smooth and we were served complimentary cheese and tomato sandwiches, tea and juice which is more than you get with most airlines these days. By following the Metro signs, we managed to find the ticket office, buy 5 tickets for 36 euro and board the right tra...

Gluten-free Athens, Greece

In General What do you wanna hear first? The good or the bad? The bad — overall, restaurants didn’t give me the impression they have much knowledge about gluten. The good — you can still eat because the greek cuisine isn’t based around gluten anyway. Just ask for the...

The melody of the city of Athens

The Design Thinking Lab on the subject “Cultural Marketing” was an exciting journey with several stations. This research and master-plan was born and developed under the supervision of Professor  Betty Tsakarestou  in the framework of the course “Athens Co-creation ...

What are the best neighborhoods to invest in Athens?

Diving headfirst into Athens’ real estate world is akin to that unpredictable Dutch rain you never see coming. One day, it’s a sunny opportunity, and the next, it’s a downpour of challenges. But, as with every adventure, the thrills are in those unexpected turns. Athens isn&rsqu...

Life in Ancient Athens

Ancient Athens is often referred to as the birthplace of Western thought. Whilst we have a lot to thank the Athenians for in terms of the invention of education as we know it, critical thinking, science, democracy, technology and architecture, everyday life looked a lot different back then. There we...

Check Out This 200-Year-Old Cemetery in the Middle of Athens, Alabama

We tend to get so busy in life that we never slow down and investigate incredible things all around us. Well today, I decided to stop for a moment and check out the Old City Cemetery in Athens, Alabama. I’ve driven by it many times and noticed it was very old — but I hadn&rs...