Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2019 schedule is announced
The full programme for the highly anticipated Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2019 has been announced!
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‘Tsiknopempti’: Not Your Ordinary Thursday Night
‘Tsiknopempti’ rituals will live on for as long as meat eaters and good barbecue chefs are around…
Tsiknopempti at the Acropolis Museum 2019
“Tsiknopempti” is Thursday of the 2nd carnival (Apokria) week, during which meat is charcoal grilled and consumed with lots of wine.
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS: APOKRIES AND CARNIVAL IN ATHENS 2019
In the lead up to Greek Orthodox Easter, the national carnival known as Apokries (translates to “a leave from meat”) is celebrated in Athens over two weeks. It comes before the period of lent commences and where Greeks feast on meat, alongside street parties filled with music, dance, theatre and masquerades.
Three New Athens Metro Stations to Open in June
The stations are Agios Nikolaos, which is in Nikea, and Agia Barbara and Platea Eleftherias, which are both in Korydallos, west of the port city of Piraeus
Annual Pitta Cutting 2019
Our annual pitta cutting will take place on Friday, February 8th, at 12:30pm.
All our students, teachers and staff are welcome!
New upcoming courses at the Athens Centre!
New modern Greek language courses for February and March 2019.
Top 15 Greek Christmas and New Year Customs and Traditions
Celebrating the New Years Eve and New Years Day holiday season in Greece and as a Greek Orthodox person has many great traditions found in Greece and locally from Greeks living in different parts of the world.
Watch Greek theatre with English subtitles in Athens
More and more Athenian theatres are providing English-speaking audiences with the chance to watch Greek theatre with English surtitles, according to ANA.