Kostis Palamas
House of celebrated poet to be restored
After years of abandonment, the house in the Plaka district of Athens once belonging to the celebrated Greek poet Kostis Palamas, will be restored and given a new lease on life as a landmark and as a place to exhibit his work and to study modern Greek literature.
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On ‘noble’and ‘rude’ souls
My friend and Kathimerini commentator Takis Theodoropoulos has a point when he writes that "there is no racism in Greece, to the extent that the 'noble souls' want to present it." Things are, in fact, even worse, if we look at the big picture.
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National labor institute offices attacked
Police on Friday were investigating an attack carried out with gas canisters at the offices of the National Institute of Labor and Human Resources in central Athens.
The explosion, which occurred shortly before midnight on Thursday, caused damage to the office entrance on Kostis Palamas Street.
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An artist uses his craft to restore sculptures damaged by vandals
By Margarita Pournara
Our interview took place under the gaze of eminent architect and town planner Stamatis Kleanthis, the domineering figure of statesman Constantine Karamanlis, the slender form of Athena and a headless bust of actress Kyveli. On the floor, I see the head of Dionysus Solomos, broken off after a branch fell on the statue in the National Garden.