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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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George Stamatakis is a contemporary Greek painter whose work explores the delicate interplay between humanity, nature and the inexorable forces of change, while revealing both ecological fragility and aesthetic possibility. In an interview with Greek News Agenda he shares his insights into nature’s forces, the way they shape his practice and the beauty and melancholy of a world in flux.
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Greek News Agenda3 days ago
📚📚On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of #poet Manolis Anagnostakis, a symposium organized by the Department of Modern Greek Studies of the University of Geneva, in cooperation with the Circle of Friends of the Poet Manolis Anagnostakis, with the support of the Consulate General of Greece in Geneva, aims to shed light to the multi-faceted work of the great Greek poet.

Reading Greece spoke to the symposium’s organizers, Valia Tsaita-Tsilimeni (University of Geneva) and Thalia Ieronymaki (Circle of Friends of the Poet Manolis Anagnostakis), about the scope of the symposium, the various lectures that aim to contribute to a renewed understanding of Anagnostakis’s poetic vision, also discussing the way his moral and intellectual stance may speak to our present-day cultural and political realities, and the role that such events play in recontextualizing modern Greek #poetry within global literary studies.

Consulate General of Greece in Geneva - Consulat général de Grèce à Genève
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The National Archaeological Museum shares rare online photos of the 1940–41 concealment of antiquities during WWII. Led by archaeologists Christos Karouzos & Semni Karouzou, staff safeguarded Greece’s treasures from looting and destruction—an enduring act of courage & devotion #NAM