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🇬🇷 WHAT’S NEW IN GREECE

🏛 Piraeus is getting a cultural center fancier than most capitals.

🏀 Greece didn’t just beat Georgia, they catered a demolition.

More news from Greece

🔌 The nation’s largest transmission project: now entering “don’t jinx it” stage.

🐚 That free seashell just cost more than your flight - Greece imposes fines to those who collect shells or pebbles.

🎾 Greece has philosophers, poets, and champions—just not this year’s US Open. Sorry, Stefanos.

⏳ ID numbers delayed again—procrastination just went digital.

💻 Greece joins the AI race: less Plato, more Python.

🎬 The crossover we didn’t know we needed: K-drama meets Greek tragedy.

🏗 Turns out the biggest fire extinguisher is… infrastructure.

🥤 Greece dedicates a stadium to its second religion - coffee.

💶 Italian bankers buying Alpha Bank like it’s a designer handbag.

🌮 Greece looked at gyros and said, “Not enough sodium” — enter Taco Bell in Greece.

🌎️ WHAT’S NEW OUTSIDE OF GREECE

🍿 Lanthimos: “Let’s make climate despair… arthouse chic.”

🏅 Greek-Australian Dimitrios Kametopoulos wins Excellence Award.

More news from outside of Greece

📚 Because “kalimera” isn’t enough to survive a Greek summer wedding, online Greek lessons are back.

Have a story worth sharing?

Drop it here 👉️ [email protected] 

💎 CULTURAL GEMS

🏺The Griffin Warrior Goes to Hollywood - Mycenaen Bling and the Tiniest Masterpiece you Will Ever Squint at - Getty until Jan 12th, 2026

The Getty Museum in L.A. is serving up Bronze Age drama this season, and the star isn’t a Kardashian but a long-dead Mycenaean known as the Griffin Warrior. Discovered in 2015 near the Palace of Nestor at Pylos, this 3,500-year-old elite was buried with so much bling that his tomb looked less like an archaeological site and more like a Mycenaean episode of Succession. Gold rings, silver cups, carved ivory, and even imported gems from Egypt and the Near East—this was not your average spear-carrying villager. For the first time, these treasures have left Europe, and Los Angeles gets to play host.

The showstopper? A sealstone known as the Pylos Combat Agate—a pebble-sized masterpiece engraved with a battle scene so microscopic and detailed that modern scholars thought Bronze Age artisans weren’t capable of such precision. Yet there it was, tucked in with over 1,500 grave goods, next to an ivory plaque with a griffin (hence his stylish nickname). Scholars believe the Griffin Warrior’s burial predates the palace system’s full rise, hinting he may have been one of the local warlords who set the stage for Mycenaean power. In other words, while Athens hadn’t been invented yet, Greece already had influencers who knew how to bury themselves in style.

📆 BEST OF GREEK CALENDAR

👯 September 5–7, 2025, Kansas City Greek Festival

🎦 September 26 - October 5, 2025, Greek International Film Festival Canada 2025

🎦 October 14–26, 2025, 30th Greek Film Festival, Melbourne

🧩 October 17-19, 2025, Puzzle Festival, Kastellorizo (Professor Erno Rubik, of the Rubik’s cube, might be participating)

🧳 TRAVEL NEWS

⛱️ Kastellorizo: Greece’s Postcard

Finding out about Kastellorizo’s puzzle festival inspired us to dedicate this travel spotlight to this gem of an island. There are islands that feel like stage sets, and then there’s Kastellorizo, a pastel watercolor come to life. Sitting just a stone’s throw from Turkey, this little slip of Greece (population barely 500) looks like it was designed by someone with a weakness for symmetry and gelato-colored paint. Think neoclassical mansions in pinks, yellows, and blues stacked politely along a horseshoe harbor, where cats, fishermen, and tourists perform their daily choreography like it’s all been scripted. It’s not just beautiful—it’s that smug, cinematic kind of beautiful that makes you instantly regret posting “best sunset ever” from Santorini.

Despite its size, Kastellorizo has layers—both historical and cinematic. It was a Byzantine outpost, an Ottoman possession, briefly French, briefly Italian, and forever a symbol of stubborn Greekness at the edge of the Aegean. Its claim to global fame? The 1991 Oscar-winning film Mediterraneo, which immortalized the island as a kind of romantic, sunlit nowhere. Add the medieval castle that gave the island its name (Castello Rosso, “Red Castle”), and the jaw-dropping Blue Cave, a sea grotto that manages to out-glow half the world’s nightclubs, and you’ve got an island that is both fragile and theatrical.

🔍 Hidden Local Gems

🏖️ Island of Saint George: One of the best places to swim.

🛶 Blue Cave, uncrowded: Go early morning when the water’s calm.

🧿 Island hopping (micro edition): Take a tiny boat to the even tinier islet of Ro—famous for its “Lady of Ro,” a legendary woman who raised the Greek flag daily for decades.

🧩 Museum of Puzzles: Test your brainpower with puzzles by Pantazis Houlis, a Greek-Australian puzzle maker/inventor. He also leads walking tours around the island.

🆕 OBSESSIONS 

📖 Capturing Greece: Wolfgang Bernauer’s Photographic Journey

🏨 The Best Affordable Hotels in Athens, Greece

📽️ Hidden Gems of Greece & Deep Calming Music | Relaxation Film from YouTube

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🧑‍🍳 RECIPE OF THE WEEK

Katoumaria

Kastellorizo’s signature sweet spiral pastry. It’s unique to the island, often compared to a giant, buttery, sugar-dusted cinnamon swirl without the cinnamon. Traditionally, it’s baked for festivals, weddings, or “because someone showed up at the house.” It’s humble, local, and deliciously Kastellorizian.

💡 INSPIRATION

😎 GREEK FYI

🇬🇷 Kastellorizo is Greece’s easternmost inhabited island, closer to Turkey than to Rhodes. Despite its small size, it has a deep naval history.

😂 MYTHIC MEMES

📌 RECS

Why don’t you:

✅ Swim at Mandraki Bay, the island’s tucked-away harbor where locals cool off without the crowds? 🌊

✅ Go by the Archaeological Museum to see Kastellorizo’s history packed into a single neoclassical mansion—small, but surprisingly rich. 🏛️

That’s it for now. Athens gets Taco Bell, seashells get luxury price tags, and even Bronze Age warriors are stealing the spotlight in L.A. But the real question: will you go see Yorgos Lanthimos’ new extinction comedy Bugonia? If you do, report back—we want reviews that are half intellectual analysis, half “what on earth did I just watch?”. Catch you next week for more news, drama and deep dives. 🧿 Stay Greek. [email protected]

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