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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
Greek News Agenda14 minutes ago
#interview🎤

🔎𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐬, Professor Emeritus in Geopolitics and twice Ambassador of Greece to the OECD spoke to Rethinking Greece on of #geopolitics and its growing impact on international organizations, the importance of seas and oceans, and on #population geography as significant long-term factor influencing the evolution of humankind.

🌊 He advocates for a “new Western doctrine” and proposes that Europe embrace an “#archipelago” model of interconnected entities linked by sea, in which Greece could play a leading role.

📌Finally, he argues that smaller nations like Greece can leverage multilateral organizations through bold strategies, an example of which is the establishment of the 𝐎𝐄𝐂𝐃 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞.

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The exhibition “Imag(in)ing Samothrace: From Homer to the HoloLens” at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (20.2-29.6.2025) explores “poetic and visual evocations of Samothrace and its cult of the Great Gods over two and a half millennia, finding the changing perceptions that mark each era and the common threads that remain powerful today.
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Eleni Theofylaktou talks to Greek News Agenda about her inverted realities, subject matters and underlying influences.