Halkidiki in northern Greece, has been selected by RTL-TVi – a French-speaking TV station in Belgium – as the filming location of reality TV show “Married at First Sight”. The popular TV show follows singles yearning for a life-long partnership as they agree to a provocative proposal: getting legally married to a stranger the moment […]
The restored info kiosk of Patmos. The Municipality of Patmos has a new “smart” culture info kiosk that offers valuable information to visitors on the island’s history, traditions and culture. On occasion of Greece’s bicentennial since the 1821 Greek War of Independence, the municipality restored the 80-year-old info-kiosk located at the port of Skala, and […]
US media and entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros has selected the Greek island of Rhodes as the filming location of four productions of its reality TV dating shows “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette”. According to an announcement by the South Aegean Tourism Initiative, some of the episodes of “The Bachelor” have already been aired by major […]
Photo source: @Thessaloniki Hotels Association A number of antiquities unearthed during works for the construction of the Aghia Sofia metro station in Thessaloniki, have returned to their original location, the Culture Ministry announced on Sunday. Photo source: Ministry of Culture The antiquities were detached from the site in 2017. Following the station’s completion, the
British best-selling author Victoria Hislop recently visited the archaeological site of the Lasithi Plateau (known as Oropedio Lasithiou in Greek), an area of great historic significance on the eastern part of Crete. Excavations have resumed in the area after 100 years under the supervision of the Culture Ministry, with funds provided by the Lasithi Plateau […]
The Municipality of Chania has turned one of the city’s old Turkish baths (hammams) on Kasteli hill into an art gallery to host exhibitions and cultural events. Located on Katre street in the old part of the city, the old hammam is surrounded by vaulted arcades and smaller domes. Its central area is covered by […]
Glenn Close. Photo source: @glennclose, Instagram Hollywood star and eight times Oscar nominee Glenn Close recently arrived in Athens to film for season 2 of Israeli espionage thriller “Tehran”. After the completion of its first season, which was almost exclusively shot in Athens, the show of Apple TV+ once again “disguises” the Greek capital as […]
The beauties of Halkidiki in northern Greece are being promoted through the new music video of Gerald Ahern & Labis, a band consisting of Irish and Greek musicians. The band recently released a four-minute music video to promote their new song “Reverb”, which was filmed in Halkidiki with the support of the Halkidiki Tourism […]
The Athens Municipality has expanded its street art program with the addition of one more impressive mural on the wall of Thessalonikis pedestrian street, located near the capital’s Technopolis cultural complex in the district of Gazi. Created by Italian artist Demetrio Di Grado, the mural has joined the list of other street art creations in […]
Rhodes’ gastronomy and wines were recently promoted to Italy through an extensive feature published in Italian monthly magazine Bell’ Europa. Titled “Rhodes, the taste of summer” (Rodi, il gusto dell’ estate), the 14-page feature was published in the August issue of Bell’ Europa, following a press trip that was organized by the Greek National Tourism […]


















