By Ilias Karagiannis A new movie “Diakos the heroic martyr” brings the story of Athanasios Diakos to life on the big screen, where audiences see his journey from the day of his baptism in the church to his martyrdom on April 24, 1821 in Lamia, Greece. Diakos was a Greek military leader among the protagonists of the first year of the Greek Revolution of 1821 who worked in central Greece. He was from the mountainous region of Phocis and, according to one source, his real name was Athanasios Grammatikos, or according to other sources, Athanasios Massavetas. He chose “Diakos” as…
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A collection of important Cycladic antiquities shared between the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Greek government has been exhibited at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens. The 161 companies were formed over 40 years by businessman Leonard Stern. On his Instagram feed, Max Hollein, the director of the Metwelcomed “a fantastic new partnership and solution for bringing private collections with complex provenances into the public sphere.”Billionaire Stern amassed his fortune through pet supply sales, real estate and renewable energy innovations and kept most of his artwork in his home on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. He…
With a new boat, a new location and new faces, the excitement, drama and adventure of life aboard a private luxury yacht is taken to another level by the popular Under the Mediterranean Bridge show filmed on the Greek islands Providing unparalleled service to wealthy and uncompromising guests is made even more difficult as the team faces everything from love triangles to watching other crew members shockingly cross the finish line with the guests. Travel from Santorini, Mykonos and many Greek islandsEach episode introduces a new group of elite clientele that presents a new set of challenges, while providing the…
At risk of being overrun, the Acropolis will be protected by a crowd control system that will include time slots and electronic ticketing and plans will include more shade and water for those waiting in the heat in the long Waiting lines. The famous ancient site has seen a dramatic increase in visitor numbers with the COVID-19 pandemic essentially ending and waves of tourists returning to the country that could surpass 30 million, more than three times the population. Some 17,000 people visit the site each day to see the hill and the famous Parthenon and that number is rising…
Greekreporter.com notes in the following article that on April 10, 1825, three years after the failure of the attempted occupation of Missolonghi, the Ottoman armies returned to besiege the city which had become the seat of the Senate of western continental Greece. The siege lasted a whole year and the town’s 10,500 inhabitants finally made the heroic “Exodus from Missolonghi” on April 10, 1826, adding another brilliant page to the history of the Greek War of Independence. The army of Resid Mehmed Pasha, or Kioutachis as the Greeks called it, numbered 20,000 men. began the second siege of the city,…
Concerns about racial and ethnic discrimination are widespread in most of the 17 advanced economies surveyed by the Pew Research Center this spring. Majorities of adults in 14 of these places say that discrimination based on race or ethnicity is a somewhat or very serious problem in their own society – including about three-quarters or more in Italy, France, Sweden, in Germany and the United States. In Japan, Singapore and Taiwan alone, less than half of respondents believe that this discrimination is a serious problem. This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on comparing attitudes about whether racial and ethnic discrimination…
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Welcome to the 20th EAST MED MULTIHULL & YACHT CHARTER SHOW! This crewed yacht charter show – focusing mainly on multihulls – will be a major attraction for charter brokers, tour operators, travel agents, yacht management companies, correspondents of the most popular yachting magazines prestigious as well as many renowned maritime tourism professionals. & businesses. This is the perfect opportunity for crewed yacht charter companies to showcase their luxury catamarans and yachts and premium services to some of the most influential guests from around the world. With a wide variety of mainly multihull and monohull crewed yachts on display, there…
For the third consecutive year, the Greek Embassy in Washington opened its doors to welcome its young friends on Saturday, November 3, on the occasion of the “Become an archaeologist for a day” workshop which takes place as part of the Annual European Children’s Festival under the auspices of the EU Delegation to the United States. Dozens of children had the opportunity to learn about ancient Greek civilization using museum kits filled with copies of Cycladic figurines, pottery works and educational materials from the Museum of Cycladic art of Athens. With the help of volunteers and graduate students in the…
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