“No sales pitch is needed once people have seen the place.” The spell cast on all visitors to the American Farm School at Thessaloniki more importantly inspires its graduates to transform the agricultural future of the country.
Favored by rococo painters and poets as the birthplace of the Goddess of Love, it is still almost a magical island “lying in the realm of dreams” according to the archaeological couple who will be digging there this summer.
Just 20 years ago this month definitive British excavations began, but scholars are still divided on identifying the Menelaion site as the Spartan palace connected with Helen of Troy. It does appear likely, however, that she and Menelaos were buried there.
Modern Hania, the Kydonia of classical times, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited towns on earth. This is the reason why excavations of its prehistory are so complicated and so tantalizing.
Sculptor, painter, marionette maker, and creator of contraptions, David Kennedy will show the results of his Hephestian oils in Kolonaki in April.
The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute at Hania is in the vanguard of European efforts to develop new perspectives for agricultural development.
“Here perhaps for the first time in the history of European art, emotion and pain are fully realized.” So the eminent art historian Manolis Hadzidakis has written of frescoes which can still be seen in Slavic Macedonia where tragedy seems to be indigenous.
The industry isn’t exactly walking on air, but for the few who want ‘the real thing’, handmade by the true craftsman, its products are luxuries without being extravagant.
Born in Ottoman Thrace, ordained in Egypt, Dean of the Rizareios Ecclesiastical School in Athens, Nektarios founded a monastery on Aegina which is a repository of miracles.
The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens was founded in 1981. This year a team of 26 is completing its 17th season at a site on the Chalkidiki Peninsula under the direction of Professor Alexander Cambitoglou.
