Despina Vandi: The move and the details of the family's new home

A luxurious maisonette in Voula with minimal glass details is the new nest for Despina Vandi, Demi Nikolaidis and their children, Melina and George.

The move was completed last Friday, the day the family first slept in their brand new residence. Minimal furniture, two large kitchens, a large swimming pool and a gym are just some of the details of the new house that has been hosting the glamorous family for five days.

Source : yupiii.gr

The city below Thessaloniki

The "City under the City" has a myriad of small and big secrets and amazing stories. If they come to light, attract and delight people.

1.000 from the 10.000 subway findings make their way to the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and the Museum of Byzantine Culture
This will be done next year in Thessaloniki as well, where the ancient neighborhoods excavated during the metro works will "speak".
The best witnesses when people are gone are, most, the works of their hands, movable and immovable. Some, the second ones, they will go to the Pavlos Melas camp, regardless of what eventually happens with the byzantine crossroads at Venizelos station. The mobiles, which exceed one hundred thousand, they will have their place in some building of the camp, where visitable archaeological warehouses will operate.
This plan takes time to materialize. The competent prehistoric bureaus – classical and Byzantine antiquities, which have been digging for so many years along the entire length of the metro axis, prepare in the 2014 a long periodical exhibition with two strands. One will be hosted at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and the other at the Museum of Byzantine Culture.

From the cemeteries
The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki will present the rich findings from the excavations of the IST’ Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. Emphasis will be placed on the findings found in two cemeteries ? the western one at the New Railway Station and the Democracy Square Station, the east at the Fountain.
Currency, vessels, lamps, jewelry, figurines, tools, clay vessels, spice jars will be on display. Among them the golden wreaths that had been placed as gifts. Findings from residential and building remains found at the Agia Sofia stations will be placed with them, University, Euclid.

More than 1.000 archaeological findings of the Byzantine period, which reconstruct parts of the history of Thessaloniki from the 4th century to the present, will be presented in the section of the exhibition organized by the 9th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities at the Museum of Byzantine Culture.
The protagonist here will be the main road axis of the city, large parts of which were exposed under today's Egnatia. The decumanus of the Romans, the Middle Street or Avenue of the Byzantines, with the laboratories, the residences, community service projects, it remained almost the same for centuries and testifies to the "secular" face of the city.

Of the approx 100.000 findings of the period, will be exposed 1.000. Among them: coins of different denominations, vessels, lamps, glass vials, women's and men's jewelry of all kinds and materials (pectoral crosses, glass and copper bracelets, gold, copper and silver rings), utility items from shops – laboratories – houses, as well as all kinds of grave goods.

"REASON FOR STUDY"
"It's a very good occasion to show the public what the city was hiding in its bowels", says the general secretary of Culture Lina Mendoni. “How important her past is. But also to give him something in return for the suffering he suffered because of the works."
The general secretary reminds that something similar was done with great success in Athens, where the exhibition "The city under the city" presented at the Museum of Cycladic Art was a great success.
He even emphasizes that this large periodical exhibition, which will last one year, it will provide motivation and occasion for the scientific study of the findings.

THE TWO TEMPLES
Off the main road, the exhibition on Byzantine Thessaloniki will highlight both early Christian churches found within the two cemeteries, east and west from the city center: a 7th century temple and a three-aisled early Christian basilica.

Source : ethnos.gr

The diesel… face of the Golf GTI

The diesel GTI, will be in Geneva. VW officially presents, at the great international exhibition of the Swiss city, the GTD version of the seventh generation Golf.
They passed 31 years since the first Golf GTD and the “components” they remain the same in the new one “hot” diesel version of the German best seller.

Under the hood, we meet the 4 cylinder 2.0 TDI with common rail and turbo technology. The engine works 184 PS and 380 Nm of maximum torque from 1.750 s.a.l.. In its basic version, the engine is combined with a manual gearbox 6 relations, while the automatic is optionally available, double clutch, DSG too 6 relations. The logo of the publication, it justifies itself in a wonderful way, both from performance, as well as consumption.

Acceleration from standstill, στα 100 km/h, comes to 7,5 seconds, with the top speed touching the 229 km/h. At the same time, VW announces average consumption 4,2 lt/100km. and CO2 emissions, στα 109 g/km, prices that with the DSG are slightly more stingy (4,7 lt/100km and 122 g/km).

The double ending of the exhaust, the diffuser, the large spoiler and alloy wheels 17 inches with the tires 225/45, reinforce the car's martial image, while the atmosphere inside is correspondingly sporty. The availability of the Golf GTD will begin immediately after Geneva, with prices for the German market starting at 29.350 euro.

Source : autotriti.gr

The city below Thessaloniki

The "City under the City" has a myriad of small and big secrets and amazing stories. If they come to light, attract and delight people.

1.000 from the 10.000 subway findings make their way to the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and the Museum of Byzantine Culture
This will be done next year in Thessaloniki as well, where the ancient neighborhoods excavated during the metro works will "speak".
The best witnesses when people are gone are, most, the works of their hands, movable and immovable. Some, the second ones, they will go to the Pavlos Melas camp, regardless of what eventually happens with the byzantine crossroads at Venizelos station. The mobiles, which exceed one hundred thousand, they will have their place in some building of the camp, where visitable archaeological warehouses will operate.
This plan takes time to materialize. The competent prehistoric bureaus – classical and Byzantine antiquities, which have been digging for so many years along the entire length of the metro axis, prepare in the 2014 a long periodical exhibition with two strands. One will be hosted at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and the other at the Museum of Byzantine Culture.

From the cemeteries
The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki will present the rich findings from the excavations of the IST’ Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. Emphasis will be placed on the findings found in two cemeteries ? the western one at the New Railway Station and the Democracy Square Station, the east at the Fountain.
Currency, vessels, lamps, jewelry, figurines, tools, clay vessels, spice jars will be on display. Among them the golden wreaths that had been placed as gifts. Findings from residential and building remains found at the Agia Sofia stations will be placed with them, University, Euclid.

More than 1.000 archaeological findings of the Byzantine period, which reconstruct parts of the history of Thessaloniki from the 4th century to the present, will be presented in the section of the exhibition organized by the 9th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities at the Museum of Byzantine Culture.
The protagonist here will be the main road axis of the city, large parts of which were exposed under today's Egnatia. The decumanus of the Romans, the Middle Street or Avenue of the Byzantines, with the laboratories, the residences, community service projects, it remained almost the same for centuries and testifies to the "secular" face of the city.

Of the approx 100.000 findings of the period, will be exposed 1.000. Among them: coins of different denominations, vessels, lamps, glass vials, women's and men's jewelry of all kinds and materials (pectoral crosses, glass and copper bracelets, gold, copper and silver rings), utility items from shops – laboratories – houses, as well as all kinds of grave goods.

"REASON FOR STUDY"
"It's a very good occasion to show the public what the city was hiding in its bowels", says the general secretary of Culture Lina Mendoni. “How important her past is. But also to give him something in return for the suffering he suffered because of the works."
The general secretary reminds that something similar was done with great success in Athens, where the exhibition "The city under the city" presented at the Museum of Cycladic Art was a great success.
He even emphasizes that this large periodical exhibition, which will last one year, it will provide motivation and occasion for the scientific study of the findings.

THE TWO TEMPLES
Off the main road, the exhibition on Byzantine Thessaloniki will highlight both early Christian churches found within the two cemeteries, east and west from the city center: a 7th century temple and a three-aisled early Christian basilica.

Source : ethnos.gr