Category: culture

June 26, 2019

4th Sand Sculpture Festival held on Crete

Amazing sand statues sending messages for the protection of the marine ecosystem are currently on dislay at Ammoudara Beach in the municipality of Malevizi, in the Regional Unity of Heraklion, Crete. They are the creations of sand sculptors...

culture / news

June 3, 2019

Paleochora Art Week back again

After a break of two years, Paleochora Art Week returns with a new concept, new showrooms and a new event date. From the 8th of June to the 22nd of June, 24 artists, all...

culture

June 1, 2019

A new novel on wartime Crete by Phillip Duke, a former Apokoronas resident

A Cretan village confronts the Nazi juggernaut sweeping across Europe. A village matriarch tries to hold her family together…Her grieving son finds a new life in the Cretan Resistance… A native English soldier unwillingly finds...

culture

May 21, 2019

Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival, June 1-5

The 1st Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival in co-operation with the Municipality of Kandanos Selinou launches June 1-5, 2019. With over 350 film submissions resulting in 67 Officially Selected films from 19 countries,...

culture

May 3, 2019

Ancient trireme open to public

The Olympias, a reconstruction of a 5th century BC Athenian trireme, anchored at the Zea Marina in Piraeus port Thursday for the fifth straight year as part of the Sea Days 2019 initiative to...