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With 570 entries from around the world, a number that surpassed all expectations, the 4th International Poster Contest by the Museum of Typography was completed. The winners of the contest will be unveiled on Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 7:30 pm. in an event devoted to typography, at the amphitheater of the Museum. The first […]
Read More The number of visitors to the Knossos archaeological site on Crete recorded a spectacular increase, according to official figures for the month of May. The number of tickets issued in the month rose to 95,200, from 68,100 in May 2017. “I call this increase spectacular,” said the chief curator of the Knossos Museum Manolis Apostolakis. […]
Read More The Municipality of Platanias welcomes its visitors with a unique exhibition running this summer. An exhibition full of Crete, Greece and music… For four months, the foreign and local visitors of Platanias will be able to ‘wander away’ through this exhibition that includes screenings of archival material and posters of the film Zorba the Greek, […]
Read More The robot is capable of playing songs by feeding it with the tempo, the notes and the duration of every note (written in a file). In this video it plays 6 well known traditional songs from Crete, Greece Cretan Lyra is the most well known traditional instrument of Crete and every visitor of the island […]
Read More The leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has called for the return of the Parthenon Marbles, currently housed in the British Museum, to Greece. In an interview with Greek newspaper Ta Nea, Corbyn stressed that the sculptures “belong” in Greece. The sculptures were made in Greece and had been there for thousands of years […]
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