Tag: ARCHITECTURE

Porto Lago / Lakki: a 1930’s model town in the Aegean

On the island of Leros in the Dodecanese archipelago of the Aegean Sea you can find a strange town that looks like an old movie set. This is the town of Lakki, or Porto Lago as it was originally called when it was built in the 1930s, during the Italian occupation of the Dodecanese. Some of its buildings have been declared monuments by the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

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Lycabettus Theater opens up again

The Lycabettus Theater is an open-air theater built on the site of a former limestone quarry on Mount Lycabettus in Athens. The hill is the highest in the center of Athens with a height of 285 meters, and offers a panoramic view of the city. After 15 years of “silence”, the theater reopens its gates on September 15, 2023, fully renovated.

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Greek News Agenda
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Vaso Katraki was a prominent Greek engraver, renowned for her unique visual language and bold reflection on human condition. Alia Tsagkari, curator of the exhibition “Hurtful Bodies” at Roma Gallery, discusses Vaso Katraki’s aesthetic approach with Greek News Agenda.
Greek News Agenda
Greek News Agenda2 days ago
📚📚The City of Athens Library, one of the most important and historic libraries of the country, reopened its doors to the citizens on 11 February 2025. The Library has been radically modernized, while some 25,000 books of all categories are now freely accessible to the public.

On this occasion, read about the library's history, the books, archives and rare collections it houses, the challenges it faces and the future prospects as it enters a new era.

Δήμος Αθηναίων
Οργανισμός Πολιτισμού, Αθλητισμού και Νεολαίας Δήμου Αθηναίων
Greek News Agenda
Greek News Agenda3 days ago
The lead tablets of the Dodona Oracle, part of UNESCO “Memory of the World”, whiteness timeless human concerns and offer invaluable information about socio-historical and political contexts, epigraphy and dialectology.

The Executive Board of UNESCO, on April 14th, unanimously decided to approve the designation of February 9th as “World Greek Language Day”. The decision of the Executive Board recognizes the universality and the global contribution of the Greek language to the cultural heritage of humanity.