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In a country that has not, as a rule, treated its cultural heritage in the best way, the issue of the Parthenon Sculptures seems to be a lever for meaningful diplomacy.

Today at noon, former Queen of Greece, Anna-Maria, along with her daughter Theodora and her fiancé, Matthew Kumar, paid a visit to the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Ieronymos.

Two exceptional musical events took place on the Saronic Island on August 29 and 31, 2024. At the multifaceted venue of the Historical Archive – Hydra Museum, with its impressive team and the remarkable and tireless Director Dina Adamopoulou, the audience was enchanted by exquisite musical melodies combined with color, art, and light this summer.

The Municipality of Spetses has announced an outstanding and content-rich program of commemorative and cultural events for Armata 2024, which will take place on the historic island from Friday, August 30th to Sunday, September 8th, the day of the heroic Battle of Spetses, which occurred on September 8, 1822.

The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics contained "scenes of mockery of predominantly Christian religious symbols and persons" that "provoked the religious sentiment and faith of billions of people," the Orthodox Church of Greece has said. 

The church expressed its first opinions on the event at a meeting of its Holy Synod, under the chairmanship of Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens.

SYRIZA's president returned to Spetses yesterday afternoon

"We are here to celebrate, we find everything else," Archbishop Ieronymos said earlier - It is the Prime Minister's first presence at the Metropolis since the Mass for the New Year

The Church loves but does not leave its positions, Ieronymos added

Malvina Panagiotidi's solo exhibition, "All Dreams Are Vexing," at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Kallirois & Amvrosiou Frantzi, emst.gr), stems from her 2023 research on the Saronic island of Spetses, where one of the first great female artists of modern Greece, Eleni Boukoura-Altamoura, sought solace after her children's tragic deaths.

Archbishop Ieronymos, the leader of the Orthodox Church of Greece, supposedly took a relatively soft stance on the issue of same-sex marriage.