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Porto Lago / Lakki: a 1930’s model town in the Aegean

On the island of Leros in the Dodecanese archipelago of the Aegean Sea you can find a strange town that looks like an old movie set. This is the town of Lakki, or Porto Lago as it was originally called when it was built in the 1930s, during the Italian occupation of the Dodecanese. Some of its buildings have been declared monuments by the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

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Lycabettus Theater opens up again

The Lycabettus Theater is an open-air theater built on the site of a former limestone quarry on Mount Lycabettus in Athens. The hill is the highest in the center of Athens with a height of 285 meters, and offers a panoramic view of the city. After 15 years of “silence”, the theater reopens its gates on September 15, 2023, fully renovated.

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"A Cabinet of Curiosities", an exhibition currently on view at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylonas, creates an unconventional and eccentric world. Yiannis Bolis, curator of the exhibition discusses the quirky world he has assembled, inviting us to explore the peculiar and the unexpected.
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📚📚On the occasion of the publication of her third #poetry collection "225" and her exceptional performance at "Greece Sings Fado" organized by the Embassy of Portugal in Greece, singer/songwriter, performer and poet Maria Voulgari spoke to Reading Greece about the interrelation between #music and poetry as they both express the same human need to create and communicate.
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Greek News Agenda5 days ago
🎤 #Interview | Greek Historiography

Historian Nikos Christofis speaks to Rethinking Greece about the recently published volume 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐞: 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬, which he edited.

The volume, aiming to serve as a contemporary resource for students and scholars alike, explores how Greek historiography has evolved—from 19th-century nation-building narratives to contemporary approaches like gender studies, biography, and memory studies.

A timely and critical resource for understanding how we write and think about Greek history today. 👇

#greekhistoriography #PublicHistory #moderngreekstudies