Athens is a city of contrasts—where millennia-old ruins coexist with edgy street art, and tranquil morning strolls give way ...

For it was here, I tell my family dragooned into a morning tour of Greece ’s best preserved Mycenaean palace, that Telemachus ...

I almost couldn’t keep myself from staring at the well-coiffed silver-haired lady sporting an Hermes scarf and carrying a ...

Pericles' wife, Aspasia, is one of Ancient Greece's most enigmatic figures: a foreign woman in Athens who lured the city’s ...

Above the Arctic Circle, near Tromsø – often called the Aurora Capital – Viking guests are in prime position for one of ...

ANIMASYROS, the largest International Animation Festival in Greece and one of the biggest in Europe, returns from 22-28 ...

Holidays can get expensive fast but with a little planning, there’s no need to blow the budget. To help your money go further ...

It’s this progression that’s led to Athens revealing itself in layers. Think of it as an architectural moussaka. At the bottom are remnants of the ancient ... the Agora public space and ...

The ancient Greek lawgiver Draco introduced a new written legal system to Athens, but his code is remembered for its severity ...

Other must-see sites include the Ancient Agora, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, and the Panathenaic Stadium, which hosted the first modern Olympics in 1896. Away from the ruins, Athens has a lively side.

The Parthenon, a mid-5th-century temple atop the hill of the Acropolis, is dedicated to Athena, the Greek deity of wisdom and the patron goddess of Athens. Despite enduring damage, that ...

Millions of people flock here every year to see the Acropolis and the Parthenon, the ancient Agora and the Temple of Olympian Zeus. Despite its size and the number of flights it handles, Athens ...