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Greece’s July Sporting and Cultural Events 2023

2023-07-01 by Phil Butler

2022 Aegean 600

This month a series of high key sporting and cultural events will take place across Greece.

Tags: Aegean 600, arts festivals, Greece, Greece arts, Greece cultural events, Greece dance festivals, Greece tourism, Greek culture, IMA - Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge, Karlovasi, Samos events

Posidonia 2022 Shipping Expo to Feature Greece’s Seafaring Culture

2022-06-05 by Argophilia Travel News

Posidonia Events

Posidonia 2022 expo will reveal the unbreakable connection between Greek culture and the sea June 6th – 10th at the Athens Metropolitan Expo.

Tags: Athens events, Athens Metropolitan Exp0, culture, Culture Ministry of Greece, Greek culture, Greek history, Greek shipping, Greek ships, Lina Mendoni, Poseidon, Posidonia 2022

Greece’s Culture Ministry Sets Summer Hours for Historic Sites

2021-04-04 by Argophilia Travel News

Knossos Tourists

Greece’s Ministry of Culture has announced the Summer hours for archaeological sites and museums across the country.

Tags: culture, Greece, Greece archeology, Greece attractions, Greece history, Greece museums, Greek culture, Greek destinations, Greek Islands, Greek tourism news, Greek tourism statistics, Greek travel market, Hotels in Greece, Tourism in Greece, Travel to Greece

Greece Adds New Elements to National Intangible Cultural Heritage Index

2020-08-16 by Argophilia Travel News

Making Limnos’ traditional cheese

Greece’s Culture Minister Lina Mendoni announced last week the inclusion of 16 new elements to Greece’s National Directory of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Tags: culture, Greece Culture Minister, Greece customs, Greece dance, Greece traditions, Greek art, Greek culture, Lina Mendoni

Greece’s Prime Minister Invites Dozens of StaEllinika Kids to Immersive Greece Experience

2020-06-23 by Argophilia Travel News

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Kyriakos Mitsotakis has invited children from all over the world learning the Greek language to visit the country in the Summer of 2021.

Tags: Greece, Greece learning, Greek culture, Greek language, Mitsotakis, StaEllinika, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Summer 2021

Greece’s Minister of Culture Announces Artist Support Plan

2020-05-11 by Argophilia Travel News

Lina Mendoni

Minister Lina Mendoni has announced a plan for the support of artists affected by the restriction measures during the coronavirus pandemic.

Tags: Athens museums, coronavirus Greece, culture, Greece, Greece museums, Greek culture, Lina Mendoni

The United States and Greece Explore Cultural Exchange

2019-10-09 by Argophilia Travel News

US-Greece delegation

Greece takes the opportunity during US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s Athens visit, to pursue boosting bilateral cooperation in culture.

Tags: cultural goods, cultural heritage, culture, Greece museums, Greek culture, Mendoni, Michael Pompeo, repatriation, US-Greece

GNTO to Key on Culture for Greece’s Tourism Promotion

2019-09-17 by Argophilia Travel News

Dimitris Lignadis

Cultural activities and events in Greece will play a huge part in the country’s promotion as a tourism destination, according to the GNTO.

Tags: Angela Gerekou, Dimitris Lignadis, GNTO, Greece culture, Greece tourism, Greek culture

Greek Archeologists Find the Lost City of Tenea in the Peloponese

2018-11-14 by Phil Butler

Tenea statue

Greece’s Ministry of Culture has announced what’s being called a “monumental find,” as excavators unearth a site identified as the fabled city of Tenea in southern Greece.

Tags: Agamemmnon, Ancient Greece, Ancient Tenea, archeology, Corinth, culture, Elena Korka, Greek antiquity, Greek culture, Tenea, Teneans, Trojan War, Trojans, Trojas

Lost Lady of Sikinos Found by Archaeologists

2018-07-27 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sikinos

Greek Archaeologists have unearthed a mind-boggling discovery at the Episkopi excavation site in the island of Sikinos. Archaeologists discovered an ancient unlooted tomb of a prominent woman adorned with unbelievable treasures and jewelry, according to news from the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Tags: Ancient Greece, antiquity, arhcaeologoy, Cyclades, Diocese of Sikinos, Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades, Episkopi Monument, Greek archaeology, Greek culture, NeikO, Sikinos, Νεικώ

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