Matina

Love and more love. It’s both a wish and a recipe. This is how Mrs. Matina, known throughout Naxos by her first name, a skilled cook and the driving force behind the “Matina-Stavros” tavern (also known as “The Plateia”), in Koronos of Naxos, will bid you farewell after serving you a sumptuous meal. It’s also the secret ingredient she adds to her huge pots.

Greek hospital admissions due to Covid-19 have been relatively high during the summer, with the National Public Health Organization reporting 817 in its latest weekly report.

The 33-year-old Albanian, accused of being an accomplice to the armed assailant who injured three individuals from Crete in the downtown neighborhood of Gazi early Saturday morning, has turned himself in to the authorities.