Karpenisi

The phone of local officials in the village of Fourna, Evrytania, has been ringing nonstop from people responding to the priest and teacher’s call for families to relocate, offering them homes and employment to keep the village “alive.”

Hundreds of people will flock to the village of Helidona in Evrytania, Central Greece, for the All-Day Grape Festival on September 28. The festival is breathing new life into this village, whose population has dwindled dramatically over the last 40 years to 13 permanent residents, even if the census puts them at 50.

A group of residents of the municipality of Agia Paraskevi in northern Athens are expected to mount a legal challenge in administrative courts against the conversion of a green space located at the corner of Psara and Agia Triada streets into an area for placing tables and chairs.

The new mayor of Athens, Costas Bakoyannis, was sworn in Sunday.

The swearing-in took place in the open, at the Akadimia Platonos park, and not at the city hall, as is the custom.

Bakoyannis, 41, until now regional governor of Central Greece, was elected mayor last June 3, in a runoff, with 65.25 percent of the vote.

Greece's understaffed regional medical centers are reportedly struggling to cope again this summer due to the increased demand created by tourism.

According to complaints filed to the Health Ministry, medical centers across the country are suffering from serious shortages of medical and non-medical personnel.

Greece and its attractions will feature in two popular television shows in France and Estonia this year with the backing of the Hellenic Tourism Organization (EOT).

More specifically, France 5's highly rated travel show "Echappees Belles" will start shooting in the northern region of Macedonia and central Greece in June and is expected to air on September 14.

"Athens needs a lot of hard work, planning and a target-oriented strategy" in order to become "liveable" once more, New Democracy's candidate for mayor of the Greek capital said on Friday.

Anti-fascist group KEERFA on Wednesday expressed outrage over the arrest earlier in the day of lawyer Takis Zotos for spray-painting over graffiti in support of neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.

There are mountains, mountains and more mountains. And peaks, slopes, gorges and cliffs, not to mention the rapids, rivers, streams, waterfalls, lakes and forests. In Evrytania the absolute master was, is, and will always be the physical landscape.

Suns, sea, beaches and picturesque islands are the images that immediately pop in one’s mind when thinking about Greece. But the country has some breathtaking vistas from mountainous regions too. Evrytania is located in the central region of Greece and is entirely formed of mountains. Karpenisi, its capital is one of the favourite tourist destinations for the lovers of winter sports and snow.