April 29, 2025

Athens News

News in English from Greece

A walk through Christmas Athens


If you have been sitting at the festive table and have not yet plunged into the magical atmosphere of the Christmas capital, we invite you to take a walk along the elegant streets of Athens.

And CNN Greece will help us with this, which showed Athens dressed up for the holiday in all its glory.

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But all this movement is rather pre-holiday – the streets of the capital are empty on Christmas Day: hundreds of thousands of Athenians leave the city to gather with the whole family in the cozy atmosphere of their parents' home in the countryside. From December 20 to the morning of December 25, a total of 397,240 vehicles left Attica. In particular, 200,895 cars left in the direction of Athens-Corinth, and 196,345 in Athens-Lamia.

The snow that fell in the mountains forced many Greek residents to go to the ski resorts countries, most of which are already open, so Athens is really empty…



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