Stelios Misinas

A home for refugees in Livadia

Children are seen drawing pictures in the middle of a soccer field, during an event designed to bring together locals and refugees in the town of Livadia, central Greece. Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas and UNHCR representative Philippe Leclerc visited Livadia to support a UN-backed program to provide apartments to refugees.

Pedestrians enjoy traffic ban in downtown Athens

Pedestrians sit on a bench in downtown Athens on Saturday after a ban was imposed on traffic on Vyssis and Kairi, two side streets leading off Athinas in the Monastiraki area. The two streets are to be pedestrianized as part of a broader bid to hand over more of the capital to pedestrians. [Stelios Misinas/Eurokonissi]

Visitors go behind the scenes at the NAM

An art conservator talks about her work during a visitor tour of the behind-the-scenes areas of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens Thursday. This was the first tour in a new initiative to acquaint the public with all facets of the valuable work being done by the biggest archaeological museum in the country and one of the most respected in the world.

Traveling the world on soap bubbles

A Polish soap bubble artist performs on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street in the historic center of Athens. Piotr Ostrowski, 31, gave up his job at a recording studio in Poland six months ago to travel the world, funding his journey along the way by putting on soap bubble spectacles in public spaces using two selfie sticks and what he calls his 'magic' soap mixture.