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Athens Creates Pedestrian Zones for the 2020 Tourism Season

2020-05-25 by Argophilia Travel News

There will be a three-month ban on traffic in Athens’ center. Greece’s capital gets a pedestrian zone for summer 2020.

Tags: Athens attractions, Athens Greece, Athens tourism, Athens travel, Grand Walk of Athens, Greece tourism, pedestrian zone, Plaka, Plaka zone, toursits

The Best Tweets from Greece in July of 2019

2019-08-03 by Phil Butler

Tweet Greece

Tweets from Greece are so often amazing, we thought we should share this part of the journey. After all, this is what Argo stands for.

Tags: Acropolis, Argophilia Travel, Athens, Corfu, crete, Kefalonia, Melissani Cave, Milos, Plaka, SAS, Thassos, Tweet Greece, Twitter

AthensWas Is Offering a Special Summer Rooftop Experience

2018-07-20 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sense Restaurant Athens

The Greek capital’s luxury design hotel AthensWas invites Athenians and tourists to its rooftop Sense Restaurant to enjoy special lunch and dinner selections this summer.

Tags: Acropolis, Acropolis hill, Alexandros Charalambopoulos, Athens dining, AthensWas, fine dining, Plaka, Sense Restaurant

Day Four of Five in Athens: Life is A Prayer

2016-11-30 by Phil Butler

Two days of the Digi.travel EMEA Conference & Expo in Athens delivered their business promise to those who attended, and to those of us presenting. Friends and colleagues, old and new, were ready to embark along their separate paths, but for us exploring the streets of Plaka, and listening to the echoes of eternity, the message was in […]

Tags: Acropolis, Acropolis Museum, Airotel Stratos Vassilikos, Athens, DigiCam TV, Henri Roelings, Plaka, Rory Suchet, RT TV, Tom Magnuson, Tomasz Janczak

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Chania Tourist Police Crack Down on Illegal Beach Masseurs and Unlicensed Vendors

2026-06-13 By Kostas Raptis

The Chania Tourist Police launched a targeted sweep on Crete beaches, arresting four individuals for unlicensed vending and unsanitary beach massages.

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Police Heavy-Handedness Terrifies Children and Enrages Chania Community

2026-06-13 By Kostas Raptis

Greek police face severe backlash after launching an aggressive, high-intensity traffic sweep directly outside a primary school festival in Vryses, Crete.

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The Other Crete: Why the South Coast Still Feels Untaken

2026-06-13 By Phil Butler

There is a Crete that most visitors meet first: the airports, the rental counters, the north coast highway, the polished resorts, the old Venetian harbors, the beach clubs, the easy restaurants, the postcard alleys, and the summer machinery of a Mediterranean island that long ago learned how to receive millions. It is not false. Chania, […]

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Agios Nikolaos Trail Network Reaches 190 Kilometers

2026-06-12 By Manuel Santos

Agios Nikolaos has expanded its hiking network to approximately 190 kilometers of marked trails, adding new routes while improving signage across existing paths.

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Traditional Strata Brings Cretan Music and Dance Back to Chania

2026-06-12 By Argophilia Travel News

Chania’s Traditional Strata returns from June through September, filling the Venetian Harbor with live performances every Tuesday evening.

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