A large wildfire has broken out south of Athens, forcing evacuations and road closures near the ancient Temple of Poseidon. The fire erupted Thursday during Greece's first summer heatwave, with ...

Traveling to Greece? Here are the sites, landmarks, locations, restaurants and bars to see while in Athens, Thessaloniki and the Cycladic island of Paros.

Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern Greece, authorities said on Friday. Mount Athos is one of the most ...

A 5.3-magnitude earthquake on Saturday rocked the Greek Orthodox religious enclave of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Athens' Institute of Geodynamics said. A 5.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the ...

Thessaloniki, Greece (AFP)-A 5.3-magnitude earthquake on Saturday rocked the Greek Orthodox religious enclave of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Athens’ Institute of Geodynamics said.

Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ministers of both countries said late on Wednesday, after an Egyptian court ...

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ministers of both countries said late on Wednesday, after an ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years.

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The all-male autonomous community, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, is no stranger to non-Greeks.

Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — or Simon’s Rock — transcends country-based branches of the ...

Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The autonomous community, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy ...