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🇬🇷 WHAT’S NEW IN GREECE

🧀 New U.S. tariffs on EU dairy products have Greek feta producers sweating harder than a tourist climbing the Acropolis in July. →Reuters

🎦 Turns out even Yorgos Lanthimos can’t Greek the system—filming at the Acropolis is not included in your auteur privileges. →Greek City Times

🌎️ WHAT’S NEW OUTSIDE OF GREECE

🏈 The Chargers are bringing American football to Greece—finally answering the question: what if Zeus had a helmet and tackled people for fun? →Greek Reporter

🎻 Greece is exporting symphonies. The Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra just made its London debut, supported by The Hellenic Initiative. →ekathimerini

💎 CULTURAL GEMS

🎭️ Archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of a long-lost theatre on the island of Lefkada, offering a glimpse into the island’s rich cultural past. The discovery sheds new light on ancient Greek entertainment—before TikTok, there was tragedy. →Archaiologia

🏺 The Original Influencers: Ancient Greek Statues

Long before curated feeds and fitness challenges, ancient Greece perfected the art of the ideal form—in marble. The kouroi and korai, those instantly recognizable statues of poised youths, weren’t just ornamental. They represented beauty, virtue, and the Greek obsession with symmetry and proportion. With their slightly-too-wide stances and that ever-mysterious “archaic smile,” they’ve been silently judging us from museum pedestals for centuries. And unlike modern influencers, they did it all without ring lights, filters, or pants.

These figures weren’t portraits, but ideals. A kouros wasn’t “young Aristeides from down the road,” but every ideal young man at once—athletic, noble, destined for glory (or at least a heroic death). Whether marking graves or standing in temples, they told a society’s story through muscle and stone. It’s no coincidence that millennia later, we still measure artistic achievement—and our own ideas of beauty—against them. The body as message, the pose as philosophy. And yes, the abs were deliberate.

📆 BEST OF GREEK CALENDAR

 🎭️May 16th, 2025: Nia Vardalos – Tiny Beautiful Things, Pallas Theater, Athens.

 🎤 May 2025: Nikos Oikonomopoulos: Astoria, Chicago, Cyprus.

🎤 September 13, 2025: Anna Vissi, Kallimarmaro, Athens.

🧳 TRAVEL NEWS

🏖️ Costa Navarino: Come for the sunsets, stay because you got lost between the spa and the 18th hole.

Nestled in the Peloponnese like a rich uncle’s vacation home, Costa Navarino is where luxury meets the Ionian Sea. With new villas, activities ranging from golf to olive-oil sommelier-ing (yes, that’s real), and views that could fix your love life, it’s the kind of place where “overwhelming” turns into “I live here now” - a mainland getaway that feels like an island, minus the ferry delays.→Forbes

🚶‍♀️ Move over Santorini sunsets and Mykonos beach clubs—2025 is the year of sweaty serenity on Andros. 

With over 300 kilometers of gorgeously marked trails, waterfalls, and enough stone paths to turn your thighs into marble, Andros is officially Greece’s hiking hotspot. Bonus: you still get the tavernas, ouzo, and sleepy seaside villages at the end of every trail. Win-win. →Greece Is

🆕 OBSESSIONS

☕️ Three traditional “kafeneia” you should visit in Pilio →ekathimerini

🥗 2025 Toques d’Or Honor Greece’s Top Restaurants →pappaspost

🎤Ζεϊμπέκικο II - Δ. Σαββόπουλος, Μ. Σάττι, Μικρός Κλέφτης ft. Σωτηρία Μπέλλου | A masterpiece blending of music past and present

🌟 GREEK STARS

Anna Vissi to Rock the Kallimarmaro—Again! Apparently, time travel is real and it wears sequins and belts out “Dodeka.”→Greek City Times

✨ TRENDING GREEK SOCIAL MEDIA

@fanislabropoulos on Tik Tok : How to avoid a summer breakup

 🧑‍🍳 RECIPE OF THE WEEK (New Section Alert)

It’s Lent, so we’re keeping it light(ish): Greek spinach and rice with tomato (Spanakorizo kokkinisto) by Akis Petretzikis —the dish that says, “I’m suffering, but deliciously.”

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