Piraeus

“If you start now from the center of Athens, you’ll reach Rovaniemi faster than Marousi.” With this phrase, drivers humorously express their frustration over the traffic in the capital, which becomes increasingly unbearable as the Chr

As is well known, Greece paid a heavy price during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of dead, destruction of critical infrastructure, and incalculable material damage.

A deep social divide in life and death has emerged in Athens, a study by the Institute of Demographic Research and Studies (IDEM) reveals. 

Mortality rates are significantly higher in the working-class districts of western Athens, central Athens, and Piraeus than in the wealthier northern and southern suburbs. 

The journalist Kostas Chardavellas passed away on Tuesday at the age of 79.

He worked for decades in newspapers, primarily at Ta Nea, as well as on television, in the historic program Reporters on ERT during the 1980s, which he co-hosted with Giorgos Lianis and Giannis Dimaras.

Piraeus Mayor Yiannis Moralis testified before an investigative magistrate for three hours over his alleged involvement in a major case involving 167 defendants accused of being part of a criminal organization in Greek soccer. 

When the devastating Athens earthquake struck in September 1999, scientists were astonished to discover that it originated from an unknown fault, the Parnitha fault. In the years that followed, the country’s top scientific institutions attempted to map Attica’s faults – and they succeeded.

On Thursday, December 12, the holiday opening hours of commercial stores in Athens and Piraeus begin.

The opening hours of the opening hours of Athens and Athens and Athens International Airport

How stores will be open during the holidays

The historical trauma of the December Events, essentially a composite of numerous smaller traumas and just as many enigmas, remains largely unhealed. Eight decades later, instead of resolving the questions, time has merely multiplied them.

Olympiakos soccer club has responded to the prosecution of its president and four senior officials in a Greek soccer-related criminal case, describing the charges as politically motivated.

Judicial authorities have reportedly filed criminal charges against the president and four senior officials of Olympiakos soccer club in connection with a major case involving 167 defendants accused of being part of a criminal organization in Greek soccer. The activities of this organization have also been linked to the death of a police officer late last year.