Ernst Ziller

idiou is a tiny street running off Academias in downtown Athens and for most it is associated with the city center's entertainment scene, as a popular meze restaurant there tends to draw a fun crowd in the evenings.

Researchers who want to use the spaces of the neoclassical Vallianeio building of the National Library of Greece on central Panepistimiou Street in Athens are now directed to the office of the general director, as the Reading Room remains temporarily closed after part of the interior ceiling fell, which testifies to the need for urgent action by the ministries of Education and Culture for its c

One of the big open questions about the future of Athens is whether and to what extent the disjointed investment plans in the city center will succeed. And to what extent their added value will contribute to the sought-after improvement of the urban environment.

With a screening of Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction," the Ideal, one of Athens' oldest cinemas, will close for good on Friday after more than a century in business.

The historic Ideal cinema is to get a new lease on life as its operation will be entrusted to an internationally renowned company active in the field of entertainment, according to Greek hospitality business Mitsis Hotels, which has been granted the building that houses it.

The renovation of Omonia Square in central Athens will be completed in February, the Athens City Council said on Monday.
Plans include reinstalling a fountain removed from the square in the early 1990s, while new hotels are slated to open on Pireos and Stadiou streets.

The Numismatic Museum pays tribute to Jurij Subic, the Slovenian painter invited to do the murals and ceiling paintings of the Ilion Melathron by Ernst Ziller, who had designed the mansion, and German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who was to live there, in December 1879.

A man walks past the fire-scarred building that used to host the historic Attikon and Apollon cinemas on Stadiou Street, downtown Athens, on Saturday. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation recently announced plans to subsidize the restoration of the building that was damaged by firebombs thrown by protesters during a violent riot in 2012. The interiors of the two theaters survived mostly unscathed.