Petralona

The biggest film celebration in Athens begins with more than 20 screenings around the city’s most beautiful spots, from June to September, with free entrance!

The Athens Open Air Film Festival takes place for the 5th year in a row, with more than 20 hand-picked projections in the capital’s most prominent neighborhoods, converting Athens into a luminous film oasis.

Two would-be robbers who held up a supermarket in the Athens neighborhood of Petralona on Monday were detained after their thwarted raid.

A total of three robbers burst into the supermarket on Monday morning and told the cashiers to empty their registers. However, one of the employees activated the store?s silent alarm, alerting police.

Police were seeking two gunmen after a failed robbery in a supermarket in the Athens neighborhood of Petralona on Monday.

Arsonists and vandals targeted a series of banks and public buildings in overnight attacks that caused no injuries, police said on Friday.

Shortly after 10 p.m. on Thursday night, assailants used a sledgehammer to smash the glass facade of a branch of Alpha Bank in Glyfada, southern Athens, before lobbing Molotov cocktails inside the premises.

Two men believed to be members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party were sent to prison on Monday after an Athens court convicted them over the stabbing of a Greek and a Spanish national at the Antipnoia venue in Kato Petralona, central, Athens, in June 2008.

An Athens court on Friday heard the first witnesses in the case against two men, believed to be members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, who are being charged over the stabbing of a Greek and a Spanish national at the Antipnoia venue in Kato Petralona, central Athens, in June 2008.

By Ioanna Fotiadi

If you're in Ano Petralona and thirsting for a refreshing cup of iced cinnamon tea and a watermelon salad while quietly enjoying a book of poetry, 6 is the place for you, just one of the many cooperative cafes that have been cropping up all over Athens in the past few years.

In a surprise decision, authorities have banned access to the planted areas of Pedion tou Areos, one of the country’s largest public parks, and other green spaces in Athens.

The City of Athens on Wednesday opened nine of its departments around the Greek capital offering air-conditioned spaces to citizens who are at high risk of heat stroke as temperatures soared close to 40 degrees Celsius.

The areas will be accessible until 6 p.m. and are open to all members of the public.

The City of Athens is opening public air-conditioned spaces to citizens due to a heat wave expected to hit the capital on Wednesday and Thursday. Several public spaces will be available to citizens in the areas of Aghios Pavlos, Koukaki, Neos Kosmos, Kato Petralona and Ambelokipi on both days.