Zakynthos

The Zakynthos Museum is set to receive a fresh, modern upgrade thanks to a €940,000 restoration and modernization project led by the Ministry of Culture. Approved plans from the Museum Council now bring the 1959 landmark building, designated as a heritage site, closer to significant renewal.

Three minors, aged 13 and 14, were arrested on the island of Zakynthos, western Greece, for bullying and stealing from a 14-year-old classmate over several months.

The suspects, including two brothers, repeatedly assaulted the boy and stole 300 euros in total. The abuse was exposed when they attacked him in public on Solomos Square, slapping and insulting him.

A powerful whirlpool was created in the sea area of Zakynthos, just as express weather has been hitting the Ionian islands since midday on Monday.

The impressive natural phenomenon was noticed off the island from the city side, as a whirlpool appeared for some time.

A yellow alert for a high risk of fire (risk category 3) has been issued for much of mainland and island Greece for today, Monday, August 19, according to the fire risk forecast map issued by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection of the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection.

Nearly 200 people were stopped for questioning by police in under 24 hours during a crackdown on crime and delinquency in Laganas, a seaside party town on the Ionian island of Zakynthos that is notorious for drunken disorder among crowds of young tourists.

Five people were injured during a bloody fight involving 14 people in the area of ​​Laganas on the popular Ionian Sea island of Zakynthos early Friday morning.

Police, who announced the arrest of 12 people (11 Greeks and one foreign national), aged between 17 and 23, said everything started in a store between six people on one side and eight people on the other.

The new zoning of tourism in Greece divides the territory into five categories based on the degree of tourist development. This plan includes restrictions on short-term rentals (Airbnb) and rooms for rent, addressing a long-standing request from the tourism industry.

The images posted on a Facbook page as the fire raged in a Zakynthos forest on Sunday night are causing outrage.

In particular, the video posted on the Forecast Weather Greece page shows people continuing to have fun at a festival, while the fire was burning uncontrollably in the forest directly behind them.

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The discovery of a Caretta caretta nest on May 10 in Lagana Bay, on the island of Zakynthos, has confirmed predictions that climate change has brought the turtles' nesting season forward, the sea turtle protection society Archelon has said.

Zakynthos' most iconic site, the Navagio (Shipwreck) Beach, will remain closed for another year, according to a joint ministerial decision signed last week by the citizen protection, island policy and tourism ministers.