In a fairytale setting, full of melodies, light, magic and surprises, the Municipality of Athens wants to transform the city these days.

Open-air screenings and drive-in cinemas in the most beautiful places, concerts, musical events and performances in squares, streets, museums, theaters and cultural centers, as well as ten separate parties for the biggest night of the year, will frame the program for pulse of Christmas.

Three days of atmospheric outdoor screenings

– The Saturday, December 28the “Grand Budapest Hotel» (The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014) by Wes Anderson presents an exciting drive-in experience, in collaboration with En Lefko 87.7, in the parking lot Municipal Theater of Lycabettus overlooking the decorated Athens.

– Her Sunday, December 29in its outer space Athens Book Space in Eleftheria Parkthe Norwegian film “Christmas on Shoe Street(‘Christmas on Cobbler Street’, 2023) aimed at children from 10 years old, will be screened in collaboration with the Athens International Film Festival for Children and Adolescents and with the support of the Embassy of Norway.

– The celebratory three-day film festival ends on Monday, December 30in Metropolis squarefeaturing the classic Christmas romantic comedy “Love Is» (“Love Actually”, 2003) in collaboration with the Greek streaming platform Cinobo.

Screenings are made with free entrywhile the reservation process for the drive-in in Lycabettus will be announced soon on Culture Is Athens and En Lefko 87.7 channels.

The city celebrates the longest night of the year – December 21

On Saturday, December 21, Athens transforms into a live art and music scene, on the occasion of the biggest night of the year and the This is Athens – City Festival of the Municipality of Athens.

– On Protogenous Street, from 5:00 p.m. to midnightan outdoor stage will be set up dedicated to modern Greek alternative scene with DJ sets and happenings and in Agios Andreas Square in Lambrini with representatives of the Greek electronic scene from ENTEKA Athens.

– In Gyzi squareGeorge Apergis and the Reverb Sessions prepare a live party with electronic sounds.

– In Fokionos Negri, the radio station Melodia 99.2 invites you to a artistic music evening with his new live band and musical selections from the station’s producers.

– In the square of Agios Panteleimonthe music ensemble De Profundis presents works by its leading composers classical music.

– On the pedestrian street of Haritos in KolonakiAthens Voice revives the legendary street party her.

– At Syntagma metro stationthe Chores impress with their polyphonic performance, while in Dragatsani gallery EnLefko 87.7 offers a unique DJ set with top DJs (Laternative, Eva Theotokatu and Giorgos Bakalakos).

– The evening continues with one piano recital in Ermou and culminates in Olympia Municipal Musical Theater “Maria Callas”where Kosmos 93.6 presents Giorgis Christodoulou and a midnight party.

Music everywhere: Athens is filled with melodies!

OR Syntagma Square is the focus of this year’s Christmas events of the Municipality of Athens. From December 12 to 22will be flooded with sounds from Easy 97.2 radio station.

The beginning of the festivities live on stage takes place on Tuesday, December 24 with Doros Demosthenos and his band. On Christmas Day, Wednesday, December 25, back to back artists take over to entertain the audience. In the morning the Athenian Mandolin player Nikolaos Lavdas, at noon the MOb Trio with electronic jazz, and on Christmas afternoon the subversive performer and performer Panos Mouzourakis together with his band in an uplifting music show.

The morning of Thursday, December 26, is dedicated to the children with a musical performance from Zamominia, then the jazz band To Pragma, followed by Idra Kayne with soul and funk melodies and Mikro in their long-awaited and highly explosive comeback on the stage.

The peak of live musicians at Syntagma comes on New Year’s Evewhere we will welcome the new year with the musical and theatrical “time machine” of Phoebus Delivorias and his “Terrace of Time”, with the participation of Natassas Bofiliou, Thanasis Alevras, Martha Frindzilas, a large orchestra of dancers and young voices, the who present live a musical and theatrical time machine, which will run through its entire history of Athens from 1945 to 2025, through songs, dances, projections and humorous theatrical moments.

The Philharmonic Orchestra of the Municipality of Athens offers unique musical experiences in the city, from December 13 until the beginning of 2025, in parts of the city, with Christmas tunes and the van of the radio station Athens 9.84, which until December 21 will be parked by the Syntagma and Ermou to Agios Panteleimon and Kypseli.

From Sunday, December 15, more music at the Maria Kallas Museum, the “Melina” Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, the Municipal Market of Kypseli, the Museum of Folk Art and Tradition “Aggeliki Hatzimihalis”, the Athens Book Space in Eleftheria Park and Olympia Municipal “Maria Callas” Musical Theater with the famous Viennese operetta by Johann Strauss of the youngest, “The Bat” (from December 19 to January 4), two “Rosarte of Musicals” concerts and the Athens Big Band, which meets two great international artists, Veronica Mortensen and Niels HP, in a glittering evening with Christmas hues (December 30).