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Artistic programme 2025 for Athens Epidaurus Festival

This year is an anniversary year for the Athens Epidaurus Festival as it completes 70 years of activity The artistic programme for the Athens Epidaurus Festival 2025 has been announced, presented by artistic director Katerina Evangelatou. This year is an anniversary year for the Athens Epidaurus Festival as it completes

Braided Easter Herb Loaf

By Sofia Triantou The Easter table is a cherished Greek custom. Its true beauty lies in the gathering of the whole family—or close friends—who share each region’s traditional meal and clink their glasses together in celebration. The meal is typically laid out in the courtyards of homes, where the air

Athens After Midnight: Urban Easter Under the Acropolis

Just before midnight on Saturday, 19 April 2025, Athenians stream through the marble‑paved streets of Plaka and Monastiraki, clutching slender white candles called labathes. The Acropolis looms overhead—an ancient silhouette against the violet sky—while the city’s pulse slows to an expectant hush. Orthodox Easter in Athens is as urban as it is

Athens’ Polykatoikias 1930-1975

Contemporary Athens is characterized by a building type that transformed the Greek capital into a modern metropolis within a few decades in the 20th century: the polykatoikia, a small-scale urban apartment block. For almost forty years the unchallenged residential ideal for all social classes, the polykatoikia by the end of

“cardón, carmín y ola”: cactuses, waves and the colour red in an exhibition by Ximena Maldonado Sánchez at the Bernier/Eliades Gallery

Bernier/Eliades Gallery presents the second solo exhibition of Ximena Maldonado Sánchez in Athens under the title “cardón, carmín y ola”. The artist will be present at the opening on Thursday, May 8, from 19:00 to 21:00. Ximena Maldonado Sánchez’s paintings explore the relationship between humans and ecosystems, focusing on the

Romeo Castellucci talks about “Berenice” coming to the Le Corbusier: “It’s a wonderful play about the annihilation of language … a kind of monument to loneliness”

Βy Eleni Koutsilaiou “On one side, Berenice, and on the other side, Isabel, piercing the stage like a flame. It’s like a fire. A great fire in the middle of the stage.” A monumental writer of classicism, a colossal director, an iconic actress, an international production of the Onassis Cultural

“The Journey”: New solo exhibition of Eva Papadopoulou

Nature and tradition serve as inexhaustible sources of inspiration for the sculptor, while the timeless dimension of experience is reflected in this series of works, which consists of two thematic units: “Nature” and “Homecoming” On Thursday 10 April 2025, at 19:00, Sianti Gallery presents the solo exhibition of sculptor Eva Papadopoulou under the
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