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Lost neoclassical facades of Athens are immortalized in the works of Yannis Tsarouchis, a prominent 20th-century modernist painter whose vision captures a world all his own.

One person died in a bloody incident around 1:00 p.m. Sunday on Lemessou Street in Patissia, Athens.

In a targeted mafia-style attack during the early hours of Sunday, a 44-year-old man, purportedly a prominent figure in the nightlife scene, was ambushed and fatally shot outside a fuel station in the Athenian neighborhood of Neos Kosmos.

Bob W, one of the fastest-growing companies in the hospitality industry, is proceeding with the operation of the first two serviced apartment buildings in the center of Athens.

Police made four more arrests on Thursday afternoon regarding the pimping of a 12-year-old girl in the Athens district of Kolonos.

Among them is a 63-year-old man who was beaten up in the central Athens area of Omonia days ago after sending messages and photos to the 14-year-old daughter of a nightclub owner.

In the 1940s, one bank of the Ilisos River in Athens was a large slum, with shacks set up there by refugees who arrived after the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe. Alexander Tzonis, an architect and professor emeritus of the Delft University of Technology who grew up nearby, was deeply fascinated with the ingenuity of the community and sought to immortalize it in photos.

With the exhibition "Urbanography," curated by Syrago Tsiara, the National Gallery explores the urban transformation of Athens from 1950 to 1970 via the works of 78 artists. "It came out of a desire to seek out images of life in Athens, and thus to become part of a city where I was not raised in," said Tsiara, director of the National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum.

The former director of Greece's biggest annual cultural event was cleared on Tuesday of financial mismanagement charges by an appeals court in Athens.

Giorgos Loukos, who served as head of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival from 2006 until he was ousted in 2015, had been accused of over-charging the Greek state some 2.7 million euros between 2013 and 2014.

Athens Energy Summit, the energy industry's premier conference, is being held on Tuesday and Wednesday at Zappeio Hall in central Athens. 

It constitutes the transformation of the Athens Energy Dialogues. 

To find out more go to athensenergysummit.gr.

The Federation of Hellenic Associations of Travel & Tourist Agencies (FEDHATTA) has welcomed measures announced by the Municipality of Athens regarding the effort to decongest the center of Athens by regulating the movement of tourist buses on main roads.