Welcome to the No. 1 Guide for Athens
QUICK LINKS: Useful Information Athens Maps Hotels FAQ
Athens24
 
 
 
Athens Weather Weather
  • About Athens
  • Getting Around
  • Ancient Sights
  • Modern Sights
  • History
  • Museums
  • Going Out
  • Lifestyle
  • Free Time
  • Excursions
  • Hotels
You are here: Home
Friday, 24 May 2013
Maps | Galleries | Virtual-Tour
Click on the slide!

Welcome to Athens

Old and new

Athens Picture

Welcome to Athens

Read more...
Click on the slide!

Feed your Senses

Taste of the City

Athens Picture

Feed your Senses

Read more...
Click on the slide!

The Rhytm of the City

Nightlife

Athens Picture

The Rhytm of the City

Read more...
Click on the slide!

Nearby Getaways

Surrounding Areas

Athens Picture

Nearby Getaways

Read more...
  • «
  • 01 Welcome to Athens Athens Picture
  • 02 Feed your Senses Athens Picture
  • 03 The Rhytm of the City Athens Picture
  • 04 Nearby Getaways Athens Picture
  • »
Frontpage Slideshow (version 1.7.2) - Copyright © 2006-2008 by JoomlaWorks

ATHENS TOP NEWS

Myconos, 24-05-2013
CELEBRITY NEWS

Russell Crowe raves about Greek islands on Twitter

Oscar-winning Russell Crowe, spotted earlier this week on the glamorous island of Myconos, was continuously tweeting about his experience. For example, on Tuesday he wrote, “How is it that I've lived 49 years on this planet but never been to the Greek Islands before. So...
READ MORE
Chania , 24-05-2013
WEEKEND REPORT

Battle of Crete closing commemorations this weekend

Athens, 24-05-2013
TOURISM

Labor Ministry orders more inspections in tourism sector

Athens, 24-05-2013
WEEKEND REPORT

IAMX: Animal Impulses Tour

Athens, 23-05-2013
VOLUNTEER WORK

Doctors of the World (Médecins du Monde-Greece)

ATHENS EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

IAMX: ANIMAL IMPULSES TOUR (25-05-2013 9:00 pm) The popular concert hall of Athens, Gagarin, is proud to present back to the country for the second time IAMX on their Animal Impulses Tour tonight at 21:00 to show off their newest album, “The Unified Field”! With them as their opening act will be Neurotic Mass Movement (UK). Entrance: 20 Euros. Bio: It's not often that a band infiltrates the essence of your being, where you live and breathe their music and their words. The Berlin based IAMX isn't merely a band, it's an event - a full-on aural and visual attack which has created a die-hard cult who wait for their every move with bated breath. While most artists tend to see their art as a finite entity, IAMX's mastermind Chris Corner sees his music as ever evolving, open to interpretation and change. Like an electro glam soundtrack to a Jan Svankmajer film, IAMX mixes Corner's erotically-charged vocals with fresh intricate production, melancholia and psychotic lyrics. Music that is as brutal as it is emotional. »I never really listen to what I have done previously and don't have specific contemporary or cultural reference points when I make a record. In fact I don't listen to music at all. Film influences me much more. Perhaps that's why IAMX is difficult to define. The reference points are not from the expected places and are thrown together to make the mess that you hear,« says Corner. Growing up in a working class family in Northern England defined Chris' realistic and practical creative approach. »I have always been a hard worker and we grew up with nothing. I don't focus on doing things the correct accepted way, but on quickly finding the most effective solutions. That is what has lead me to a DIY approach in everything I do, in my art and in my personal life,« Chris explains. After three successful releases and years of touring the world as founding member, writer, producer and singer of the band Sneaker Pimps, Chris began his solo project IAMX in 2004. From the start, IAMX celebrated the independent anti-commercial industry approach, releasing uncompromising music, with focus on a strong bond with the fans. A movement whose fan base grows steadily through word-of mouth and online activity. In 2004, Corner released the IAMX debut album Kiss + Swallow, which has already been considered an underground classic, with songs such as the title track, Skin Vision, Missile, and Sailor among others, setting up a new sound many call 'Glam Noir'. The follow up, their internationally acclaimed second album The Alternative, voted the Number One Album of 2007 by XM Radio in US, was the sound of an independent revolution offering the perfect "alternative" to the insipid radio drone of the mainstream. To write and record The Alternative, Chris Corner moved from London to Berlin in 2006. He is since residing in an old industrial GDR building outside the city which functions as the permanent IAMX base. Here rehearsals take place, videos and live visuals are shot, and all music is written and recorded. The run down art factory IAMX call TURMWERK, is also a place where Corner collaborates with artist friends like Imogen Heap, Jim Abbiss and James Cook among others. With the third studio album, Kingdom of Welcome Addiction, IAMX created another masterpiece, in which the glam noir styling got an organic and much more intimate makeover. The naked emotion was embracingly welcomed on this album by both fans and critics. From the vulnerable shuffle of "Tear Garden" and the regal march of "Kingdom of Welcome Addiction" to the late night primal dance floor rhythms of "Nature Of Inviting." IAMX have played extensively to sold out audiences across Europe and the US. The live performances have become a highlight of the project. Dressed to kill, set to a backdrop of self created art visuals, explosive and passionate, the band gives everything on stage and has gained a reputation as an exceptional live act. The fourth IAMX album Volatile Times has been released throughout Europe on March 18, 2011 by BMG Rights Management and distributed through Rough Trade. Releases in the US, Canada and UK will follow later this year.
"DIMITRIS ALITHINOS, A RETROSPECTIVE" (26-05-2013 8:00 pm) The National Museum of Contemporary Art welcomes you to its doors todat through the end of May with the lovely exhibition, "Dimitris Alithinos, A retrospective". If the continuous negotiation of the contemporaneity of the presented works constitutes in our days the necessary condition of any historic exhibition of a retrospective character, in the case of Dimitris Alithinos, one of the most important contemporary artists, it is his work itself that primarily imposes such an approach. "A work deeply political, which has as its departure point artistic practices of activism and defiance of the 70s, subsequently opening itself out to transcultural and transreligious explorations, in the times of the so-called globalization, it intersects with and co-formulates a presently open-ended artistic plan: the function of art as a mode of alternative political thought and action and the development of an interactive relationship of the artist with local and global communities. The political crosses the body, of the artist himself and of his idols, through suggestive historical testimonies of violence and fear, symbolic liberating actions in the public space, various religious experiences and synergies throughout the planet, ones which investigate, we might say, the boundaries between artistic narcissism and humility. Én the heart of this political body, always the ritual." - Anna Kafetsi Curated By: Tina Pandi and Stamatis Schizakis/ http://www.emst.gr/EN/exhibitions/emst_exhibitions/main.aspx?ID=214
GO! (29-05-2013 9:30 pm) CAMP Contemporary Art Meeting Point hosts the theatrical group “Syn Athina” and the Sequence Theory Productions presenting the musical theater play GO. The story takes place between 4 artists who are unemployed in the midst of economical crisis. The screenplay describes the harsh reality of their situation with touches of humor and shows all the emotional aspects that arise from it. With central motto GO (upon which all the scenes of the play are based), the characters are trying to find their way out by making plans for their future. The word GO acts as a trigger and becomes the catalyst by reversing the evolution of the story. The soundtrack includes music of “The Sequence theory project”, performed live by one of their founder member and creator Melentini (piano-vocals) and one of the characters of the play. The scenes accompanied by projected video art especially designed for GO. Moreover, the director of the play, Athina Pappa, creates an interactive play, involvement of audience, by using Live Theater techniques. Script – Directed by: Athina Pappa Music by: Sequence Theory Project http://sequencetheoryproject.bandcamp.com/ Lighting design & photography by: Vangelis Rassias Video art : Manos Georgakopoulos. Performances:Every Tuesday and Wednesday. CAMP Contemporary Art Meeting Point 4 Efpolidos & 2 Apellou Street Kotzia Square, 105 51 Athens, Greece t: (+30) 210 3247679 e: info@campoint.gr Nearest train station: Omonoia Gallery visiting hours: Monday-Sunday 14:00-21:00 CAMP Café working hours: Monday-Thursday 9:00-2:00 Friday-Saturday 9:00-4:00 Sunday 9:00-24:00
ARTWORKS AT BETON7CAFE (30-05-2013 11:00 am) Beton7 initiates a series of exhibitions of 30 x 42cm artworks, that will be taking place all year long at beton7cafe and invites artists and curators to submit their proposals. The dynamic of this particular concept emerges from the form, which is ideal for a balanced and creative curatorial project and encourages art collecting. The duration of each exhibition will be 15 days. Proposals* should be submitted from the 1st of November at beton7@beton7.com. *Artists are expected to send up to 4 photos of their works in high resolution, accompanied by their CV. Curators are expected to send a proposal of about 1000 words that will include as well the title, the theme of the exhibition and the names of the participating artists. For more information, please contact: 210 7512625. www.beton7.com t: 210.75.12.625 f: 210.75.62.697
BALKANS ANNIVERSARY (31-05-2013 8:00 pm) On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Balkan Wars, the Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarianism and Democracy is staging an exhibition titled "The unknown front of the Balkan Wars: The administrative incorporation of the New Lands", which focuses on another, lesser-known struggle of that era which commenced in tandem with the liberation and annexation of the new "new lands". Photographs, newspapers, administrative decisions, official correspondence, tables and charts of the times are contained in the exhibition, which outlines the difficulties, the achievements but also the problems of Greek administration in its effort for smooth incorporation of the populations of Macedonia, Epirus, Crete, and Samos, the islands of the northeastern Aegean and Thrace into the state mechanism. The narration of the exhibition begins with a historical review of the military, diplomatic and political events of the 1912-1922 decade through the fundamental areas of concern to the country's administrative mechanism, the recording of the populations, the administrative organization and its staffing, education and the economy. The material comes from the National History Museum, the Historic and Diplomatic Archives of the Foreign Ministry, the Historic Archives of Macedonia and Thrace, the 'Eleftherios Venizelos' National Research and Studies Foundation, the Library of Parliament, the Gennadeios Library, and private collections for all over Greece where important documents of the country's history are preserved. The exhibition will run through the end of May, and is open to the public on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Foundation's exhibition hall (14 Amalias Boulevard) off Syntagma Square.
Athens Virtual 360°-Tour

USEFUL INFORMATION

  • Banks / ATM
  • Chambers of Commerce
  • Embassies and Consulates
  • Exchange / Western Union
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Hospitals
  • Important Phone Numbers
  • Internet Cafes
  • Pharmacies
  • Police Departments
  • Post Offices
Visit the city center of Athens Ancient Sights of Athens
Squares of Athens Athens FAQ
Parks and Green Zones
Athens Maps
Acropolis
Explore many more Attractions
Kerameikos      Plaka      Monastiraki      Olympic Structures      Ancient Agora      Benaki Museum      Syntagma Square      The National Garden      Kapnikarea      Lycabettus Hill     
Museums of Athens
History of Athens

ATHENS TOP 5
Museums

  1. Ôhe Acropolis Museum
  2. The National Archaeological Museum
  3. Byzantine Museum
  4. Museum of Cycladic Art
  5. Benaki Museum
The new Acropolis Museum
Port of Piraeus

MORE ATHENS

Shopping SHOPPING PARADISE

Those visiting Athens will discover a shopping haven that easily suits the needs of almost any pocketbook. Explore quaint tourist shops in the ancient parts of the city or upper-scale boutiques and malls.
Read more...

Hotels ATHENS HOTELS

Depending on what kind of style, location or price range you are looking at.
Read more...

Wellness WELLNESS

Athens Visitors will be surprised to find many outlets that will pamper their minds, bodies and souls. Read more...

Nightlife GOING OUT

Athens has a world famous reputation for its nightlife! Everyone is bound to have an great time! Read more...

Surf and Turf SURF AND TURF

Countless blue beaches await those who need a break from the hustle and bustle of the city. Many of these spots provide a number of land and water sports. Check out our proposes.
Read more...

Explore Athens24.com:

About Athens

Athens by Numbers Ι  Athens Maps Ι  Athens Weather Ι  Education Ι  Main Neighborhoods Ι  Squares of Athens Ι  Streets of Athens Ι  The City Center Ι  Useful Information

Ancient Sights

Academy of Plato Ι  Acropolis Ι  Ancient Agora Ι  Areopagus Ι  Dionysus Theater Ι  Herodeon Ι  Kallimarmaro Ι  Kerameikos Ι  Lysicrates' Monument Ι  Olympeion Ι  Pnyx Ι  Roman Agora

Excursions

Nearby Getaways Ι  Organized Tours Ι  Walking in Athens

Free Time

Entertainment in Athens Ι  Outdoor and Nature Ι  Sports in Athens

Getting Around

Athens Airport Ι  Athens Metro Ι  Athens Tram Ι  Car Rentals Ι  Intercity Buses Ι  Port of Piraeus Ι  Private Traffic Ι  Taxis in Athens Ι  Trains (O.S.E.) Ι  Urban Buses and Trolleys

Going Out

Gastronomy in Athens Ι  Nightlife in Athens Ι  Stage Performances

History

Compact History Ι  Historical Eras Ι  Historical Figures Ι  Olympic History

Hotels

1 Star Hotels Ι  2 Star Hotels Ι  3 Star Hotels Ι  4 Star Hotels Ι  5 Star Hotels

Lifestyle

Shopping in Athens Ι  Wellness in Athens

Modern Sights

2004 Olympic Structures Ι  Churches and Monasteries Ι  Hills of Athens Ι  Neoclassical Buildings Ι  Other Sights Ι  Parks and Green Zones Ι  Piraeus and Marinas Ι  The Athens Tower

Museums

Archaeological Museums Ι  Art Museums Ι  Special Theme Museums
 
Sitemap
Advertising
Contact
Terms of Use
Imprint




© 2013 ADVANCED INTERACTIVE MEDIA - All rights reserved