Greek Culture

Clean Monday (Greek: Kathara Deftera) marks the first day of the Great Lent before Easter and is a big holiday in Greece! From kite-flying to eating exciting and delicious food, Clean Monday has is all making it one of my favourite Greek holidays!

Tsiknopempti is a fun Greek traditional celebration, where you eat lots of meat with friends and family as a way to prepare for the long period of meat-abstinence during the Great Lent.

Christmas in Greek is "Christougenna", which literally means the birth of Christ. Amazing guest writer Angeliki explains how to "read" the Nativity scene according to the Orthodox tradition, while sharing a few thoughts about faith and hope in dark days.

Reality Check Chapter II: Inner Sanctum is a very interesting and unique temporary art exhibition taking place at an abandoned building in the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica near Athens. Discover the work of 36 different artists form all over the world, through art installations, photographs, sculptures, videos and live performances.

Angelos Sikelianos Museum, located in the charming Lefkada town, is a museum about the life and work of Angelos Sikelianos, a well-known Greek lyric poet and playwright, and his wife, Eva Palmer-Sikelianos, an American artist and choreographer.

Summer in Greece is absolutely magnificent! Let's have fun together and explore snapshots of what Greek summer is all about through my Greek summer ABCs!

Cavafy's House is the place in Alexandria, Egypt, where Constantine Cavafy lived and died. Nowadays, it's a museum you can visit and learn more about the house, and therefore the life, of one of the most well known Greek poets!

Martaki is a bracelet made by entwining red and white thread that people wear on the 1st of March in Greece and other Balkan countries. The tradition is ancient; its roots are found in the Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient Greece. After thousands of years, Greeks are still wearing this white and red thread every year on the first day of March...

Portals is a contemporary art exhibition at the emblematic building of the former Public Tobacco Factory in Athens. It represents a pluralism of ideas and touches upon issues related to collectivity, cultural understanding of history and politics, public space, and our common past, present and future.

Explore restaurants and coffee shops with a food photographer; Discover hidden culinary gems in Attica and experience Greek cuisine at its best! From fine dining restaurants to family taverns, there are places that food enthusiasts should visit, and very few people know!

Explore the "Antiquarianism and Philhellenism: The Thanassis and Marina Martinos Collection", a temporary exhibition of the Museum of Cycladic Art! One brilliant exhibition celebrating the bicentenary of the Greek War of Independence of 1821.

Travel in Greece through books! A selection of books set in Greece or written by Greek writers to inspire you to “travel” in Greece through them!