Anogeia

We watch the car thermometer drop 10 degrees from 30 Celsius as we leave the village of Anogeia in central Crete as we make the climb to the Skinakas Observatory on the summit of Mount Psiloritis (Ida).

A 29-year-old Cretan man was to face a prosecutor on Monday for allegedly shooting dead a 30-year-old neighbor who killed his 62-year-old father in the village of Anogeia.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on a campaign stop in Anogeia, Crete today touted his intention to seek German WWII reparation after a parliamentary resolution authorised the government to do so.

Greece's Foundation for Research and Technology is poised to launch the country's first Astrophysics Institute, in cooperation with the University of Crete, which aims to become an international hub of research and innovation in the field.

The investigation into Sunday's murder of a 23-year-old man in Crete over what appears to be a land dispute took a new twist on Thursday after the victim's cousin confessed to the crime, effectively exonerating his father who told police on Wednesday that he had fired the fatal shot.

Winter has finally come in Greece and locals saw the first snowflakes, whereas in some regions of Greece snow covered the streets and houses.

It’s snowing mainly in North and Central Greece, but also in Attica, especially at northern suburbs, in Pendeli and Parnitha area.

Fifty dancers from Palestine and Crete take part in a dance dialogue, titled “Cretans – Philistines – Palestines: From Crete to Palestine”, at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron Mousikis, cnr of Vas. Sofias and Kokkali sts, tel 210 728 2000).

For three successive generations, the family of the legendary Cretan singer-songwriter Nikos Xylouris and his brother, the equally famous Antonis Xylouris, known as Psarantonis, have kept the Aegean island’s music tradition alive, adapting and spreading it to thousands of people around the world.