Legend has it that ancient Athens was built on seven hills, but in reality, there are many more than that. The plentiful ...

Clouds of dust blew into Greece from the Sahara Desert causing an orange haze. Officials said it was the worst case since ...

The tiny, scenic neighborhood of Anafiotika just above Plaka and below the Acropolis is often overlooked by visitors to Athens.

In 2023, I traveled to Athens, Greece, for the first time since I was 18 months old. I spent four days exploring some of the ...

Athens sprawls across the Attica Basin, a valley surrounded on three sides by mountain ranges and on the fourth by the Saronic Gulf. Constant expansion has introduced a sense of modernism to this ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states and independent towns, rather than by one all-powerful king, is its geography. The country's mountainous terrain, many ...