Niki Kitsantonis
Freelance Correspondent at The New York Times
Contributor at BBC World Service
Freelance correspondent @nytimesworld, contributor @bbcworldservice, @NPR, @snapjudgment. Ex managing editor @ekathimerini. Ex-Londoner. [email protected]
Articles
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1 month ago |
ekathimerini.com | Niki Kitsantonis
THE NEW YORK TIMES This medieval Greek fortress is a tourist idyll. Would a cable car spoil it? Visitors at the 12th-century church on the peak above the medieval fortress town of Monemvasia, April 29. The authorities in Monemvasia, founded in the sixth century, say people with limited mobility need access to the town’s peak. But critics say a cable car project would destroy the identity of the site.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Niki Kitsantonis
The authorities in Monemvasia, founded in the sixth century, say people with limited mobility need access to the town's peak. But critics say the project would destroy the identity of the site. Carved into a massive rock, the medieval fortress town of Monemvasia rises from the Myrtoan Sea in southern Greece, its Byzantine churches and crumbling palaces a draw for the thousands of visitors who walk its cobbled pathways every year. But there is trouble in this tranquil retreat.
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2 months ago |
nytimes.com | Niki Kitsantonis
The Greek island of Santorini was shaken by thousands of mostly smaller-scale temblors. Now, residents have returned, and they hope visitors will, too. Weeks after being rattled by thousands of mostly small-scale earthquakes, the island of Santorini, the jewel in the crown of Greece's tourism sector, is determined to return to business as usual - even as the quake phenomenon remain a mystery.
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Mar 3, 2025 |
znetwork.org | Niki Kitsantonis
A general strike in Greece on Friday halted trains and ferries, grounded flights and disrupted public services as thousands of workers walked off the job on the second anniversary of Greece’s worst-ever train disaster. The 24-hour walkout, called by Greece’s two main labor unions, was the latest in a series of public protests over a dragging judicial investigation into the crash, in which 57 people were killed.
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Mar 2, 2025 |
portside.org | Niki Kitsantonis
No Trains, No Planes and Huge Protests: Strike Brings Greece to a Halt Published March 2, 2025 A general strike in Greece on Friday halted trains and ferries, grounded flights and disrupted public services as thousands of workers walked off the job on the second anniversary of Greece’s worst-ever train disaster.
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A controversy over a cable car divides the Greek Medieval fortress town of Monemvasia. https://t.co/q5meixoY5N via @NYTimes
RT @AP: BREAKING: A suspected bomb has exploded in Athens outside the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece’s main railway company, state media…
Santorini, the jewel in the crown of Greek tourism, tells the world it’s back after easing of earthquakes that stumped scientists. https://t.co/XnFMQyT3q5 via @NYTimes
