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In Athens, Creativity in Art, Food and More Rises
Here’s a shock: While Athenians ended up locked down since of the pandemic, a flurry of inventive and entrepreneurial action was underway. The consequence? A complete of 272 new eating places, in accordance to the nearby marketplace affiliation, as perfectly as hundreds a lot more cafes and bars. The town also obtained 34 new lodges, supplying 1,982 rooms more than the last two yrs. And its cultural landscape blossomed, with important nationwide projects coming to fruition. “We’ve witnessed a cultural revival and a increasing gastronomical scene that showcases the new dynamism of the town,” claimed Vassilis Kikilias, Greece’s tourism minister. Including in the construction of new motels and the upgrading…
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Building a Hub for New Art in Athens ‘Under the Shadow of the Acropolis’
ATHENS — “Sea, sunshine and intercourse, with some Greek columns in the history,” mentioned Poka Yio, the artistic director of the Athens Biennale. He was summing up the Greek government’s tourism campaigns in the 2000s as he led a visitor about a rambling former department shop that was a single of the internet sites of the 2021 version. Portion of the inspiration for setting up the biennale in 2007, he mentioned, was to alter that stereotype: “We preferred to place Athens on the modern artwork cultural map.” Fifteen many years later on, Athens is surely on the worldwide artwork group radar, nevertheless more as a curiosity than a significant hub.…