Category: Events

Enter sanctum. An immersive experience awaits us at the Municipality of Athens Arts Centre. Danae Stratou, well known for her large-scale installations, opens her latest exhibition “Burning Issues – Merimbula”, during the Athens City Festival. Her current work, two Art Centre-wide installations that invoke a sense of spiritual awakening and purification, engages with global concerns about Read more…

What would you give for a peek at the storerooms of the world’s museums? To get a glimpse of the unseen and the untold. Now answer this again, only this time for the museum that holds the world’s biggest collection of Greek antiquities, the National Archaeological Museum. NAM’s “Unseen Museum” programme is back this year Read more…

Picnic blankets and prosecco time is on. Athens Gardens Festival takes us to idyllic green locations, hidden across the city. Somewhere among the urban flora, soundtrack composer and multi-award winner Marios Strofalis, and his quartet, will be jazzing it up, on Pangrati Hill. Cheers to that! Click here for more info on tickets and dates, as well as Read more…

This is one for the cycling enthusiasts:  Join the largest cycling event of Athens, whether you are a two-wheel addict or a professional athlete. There’s the full 15km and the short 5km routes to pick from, so choose wisely. But before that, note down our top tips for cycling in Athens and find new ways to discover the Read more…

School’s out for the summer. Great for the kids, not always that great for parents who need to come up with a plan for quality family time. Step forward the SNFCC. Their highly successful Generations Festival is back on the last weekend of June with free entrance. You’ve got face painting, bicycle workshops, soap bubbles, reading Read more…

If you haven’t yet experienced a movie screening under the stars in Athens, you need to catch up. In case you already have, you can understand our excitement about Open Air Cinema Week this May, as part of our brand new Athens City Festival. The green grass over at Eleftherias Park, right next to the Read more…