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🇬🇷 WHAT’S NEW IN GREECE

⏰ Closed and will be back soon-ish. Athens’ Odeon of Herodes closed for three years for restoration works.

More news from Greece

⚖️ From Syntagma to satellites:Associate Prof. Giorgos Kyriakopoulos lands a seat on the International Institute of Space Law board.

📽️ First came the protected olive oil, now a film festival - Chania Film Festival, October 15-26, 2025.

🥈 Second in Greece, still in the world’s top lanes—Harokopio’s report card just flexed.

🤖 Twenty Greek schools are getting AI pilots and we are fairly certain that completing the Ancient Greek homework will be the number 1 prompt.

⏳ A German woman returned a 2,400-year-old Greek relic—turns out “overdue” can be half a century.

📍 New paths, old stories—Thessaloniki aligns the landmarks into a connected narrative.

🏺 Royal storage, meet public eyes: 70k items step into the light at Tatoi.

🔁 Full-circle alert—Giannis intends to close his career courtside in Greece.

🛂 Greek passport hits #6 worldwide—yes another reason for smugness.

🌬️ Apple teams with HELLENiQ on wind power—Greece gets cleaner watts with Cupertino polish.

🧮 Tax talk takes a slow drag—cautious moves on cigarettes.

🔌 Another brick laid for a very long extension cord, as Greece-Egypt cable gains ground.

📈 IMF pegs Greece at a steady 2%, which is the “keep calm and grow on” equivalent.

🏠 From 2026, rent in Greece goes bank-to-bank—cash envelopes retire and Greece is making tax evasion more inconvenient, once sector at a time.

😶‍🌫️ Productivity idea or endurance sport? 13-hour day moves forward.

🌎️ WHAT’S NEW OUTSIDE OF GREECE

🏫 At Delaware’s Odyssey Charter, mostly non-Greek kids are acing Greek and conjugating like pros

More news from outside of Greece

💙 A diaspora power evening turns into the biggest check yet from The Hellenic Initiative.

🏛️ Toronto’s Greek community invites new board voices; step up or step aside.

🌏 First-ever forum in Canberra gathers Greek diaspora women to swap playbooks and power moves.

Got a burning question about Greek culture, diaspora life, or that family tradition nobody can explain?

💌 Send it to [email protected] - your question might become next week's featured Q&A.

💎 CULTURAL GEMS

🎶 Cretan Music: Where Improvised Poetry Meets Athletic Dancing and Everyone's a Critic

Cretan music runs on a different frequency than the bouzouki soundtrack most people file under “Greek”—it’s faster, rawer, and led by the lyra, a three-stringed bowed instrument that sounds like a violin’s unruly Mediterranean cousin.

At its core are mantinádes: improvised 15-syllable couplets fired off in real time at weddings and village fiestas, turning the night into a competitive poetry match where seventy-year-old legends roast each other’s farming methods in immaculate meter. These aren’t lullabies to olive groves; mantinádes jump from politics to flirtation to exquisitely crafted burns about dubious livestock—delivered with surgical rhythm, because the crowd will absolutely heckle bad scansion. Over it all, the lyra locks with the laouto (lute) in quick-witted call-and-response, keeping the room alert and the verses sharper than the knives.

The dance floor keeps that dialogue going. Pentozáli (the dance that literally means “five” and “steps” or “dizzy” because of how you feel after dancing it) enters like a victory lap, Soústa comes with spring in its steps, and Siganós coils and uncoils in lines that move like one. Leaders cue turns with micro-gestures, jackets fly off, chairs slide back—zero pageantry, all pulse.

Come with a few things to sing about and comfortable shoes; by midnight, you won’t just understand Cretan music—you’ll be part of the chorus.

📆 BEST OF GREEK CALENDAR

📖 October 23-25, 2025, Homerathon 2025 (reading of the Odyssey), National Hellenic Museum, Greektown, Chicago

🖼️ October 24-December 31, 2025, From Greece With Love" Exhibition by Pauly M. Everett, Hellenic Museum of Michigan

📖 December 13-14, 2025, "The Peloponnese and Nafplio before and during the Greek Revolution" Workshop, Nafplio

🎭️ 20 November - 28 December 2025, Oedipus | Robert Icke, with Nikos Kouris and Karyofyllia Karabeti , Onassis Stegi, Athens

🧳 TRAVEL NEWS

🌊 Chania: Where Venetians Built a Harbor Town and Cretans Perfected It

Chania operates as Crete's most architecturally sophisticated city, a place where Venetian harbor engineering meets Cretan stubbornness about preserving beauty. The Old Town wraps around a horseshoe-shaped Venetian harbor so photogenic that even locals pause to appreciate it, with lighthouse views that make sunset an organized social event rather than a private moment. Unlike the cycladic white-cube villages or Athens's concrete pragmatism, Chania built its identity from layers of occupiers—Venetian mansions converted to boutique hotels, Ottoman mosques repurposed as art galleries, and a covered market that somehow survived urban planning catastrophes to remain the city's commercial heart. Easy to see why Chania is one of Greece’s prettiest towns.

Start with the Venetian Harbor and its 16th-century lighthouse, then loop the Firka Fortress and the Maritime Museum for sea stories that smell faintly of tar and heroism. Get lost (on purpose) in Splantzia, where Agios Nikolaos does the architectural two-step—church bell tower plus Ottoman minaret—before ducking into the artisan lanes of Skrydlof (Stivanadika) for leather and Cretan-made mischief. If you’re up for a day trip, choose your postcard: Balos Lagoon for sand that refuses to be one color, Elafonisi for blush-pink shoreline, or hike the epic Samaria Gorge

Beneath the prettiness lives a brawny timeline: Minoan roots under Kasteli Hill, Venetian ambition on the waterfront, Ottoman layers stitched through courtyards, and WWII resilience that still gives conversations a backbone. The local soundtrack is clinking tsikoudia and rakomelo; the dialect bends the Greek you learned at Saturday school, and somehow you’ll still understand when a baker slides you a sfakianopita “for strength.” Chania has that Cretan habit of feeding you stories until midnight, then sending you home with another one wrapped in paper.

🔍 Hidden Local Gems

🫒 Biolea Olive Oil Tour - Organic estate producing award-winning oil where tastings reveal why Cretans consider supermarket olive oil a personal insult.

🥓 Apaki cured meat, a Cretan delicacy hailing from Byzantine times, that is typically prepared with cured pork loin which is smoked using a combination of wood and various herbs.

🧭 Tabakaria at dusk: The old tannery quarter east of the center glows cinematic—bring a swim towel and end with seafood where waves slap the stairs.

🫒 Olive Tree of Vouves: an olive tree more than 2,000 years old and considered to be the oldest olive tree in the world.

🌿 Botanical Park & Gardens of Crete: Terraced Eden in the hills; walk, cool down under citrus, then ambush the café for whatever they picked that morning.

🏊 Seitan Limania - Dramatic fjord-like beach 20km northeast requiring steep descent, keeping crowds manageable and Instagram influencers winded

🍷 Manousakis Winery - Family vineyard in Vatolakkos producing excellent Vidiano whites, proving Crete makes wines beyond retsina stereotypes.

💙 THANK YOU to our Chaniotissa BFF Chryssi who gave us all the Chania scoop!

🆕 OBSESSIONS 

🥯 Iordanis’ bougatsa in Chania, a century-old tradition

⛰️ 10 Greek Mountain Village Areas Worth the Trip

🍹 One Aperitivo, Please? Discover the Best Spritzerias in Athens

✨ TRENDING GREEK SOCIAL MEDIA

🧑‍🍳 RECIPE OF THE WEEK

Chaniotiko Boureki 

Chania's signature summer pie layers thinly sliced zucchini and potatoes with creamy mizithra cheese and fresh mint, then bakes it all until golden. Unlike most Greek pies, traditional boureki goes phyllo-free—just vegetables, cheese, and olive oil in a baking dish, proving Cretans understand that sometimes the best cooking doesn't require pastry engineering. Some modern versions add phyllo top and bottom for extra crunch, but purists insist the original style lets the vegetables shine without interference. You'll find it at every taverna in Chania's old town, though the best versions come from locals who'll argue their village makes it better than everyone else's.

💡 INSPIRATION

😎 GREEK FYI

🇬🇷 Chania's Venetian lighthouse was built in the 1500s and remains one of the oldest lighthouses in the Mediterranean still standing, outlasting the empire that built it by 400 years.

😂 MYTHIC MEMES

That’s it for now: universities ranking globally, and Crete reminding everyone it's basically its own civilization with guest appearances by the Greek state. Chania proves Venetian occupation can leave beautiful consequences, and somewhere a mantinada is being improvised about someone's terrible parking. Catch you next week for more news, drama and deep dives. 🧿 Stay Greek. [email protected]

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