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ECONOMY
-The Greek economy received public investments worth 11.2 billion euros in 2023, the Finance Ministry said in a report on Wednesday.
-In Attica, the average price for a pita gyro wrap today ranges from 3.2 to 3.5 euros, according to a survey in which TA NEA compared the price of pita gyro wraps in shops around the country. The average price for a wrap in Greece as a whole rose from 2.5 euros in 2021 to 3.5 euros in June 2022.
TOURISM
A total of 382,981 cruise passengers visited the port of Heraklion in Crete in 2023, while cruise ship arrivals reached 253, official data from the Heraklion Port Authority showed.
REAL ESTATE
Athens ranks 5th internationally in terms of higher residential prices, out of 107 major cities surveyed around the world, with prices up by 12% on an annual basis in 2023, according to Knight Frank.
CULTURE
The palace of Philip II of Macedonia in Aegae, which the scholar of ancient architecture Wolfram Hoepfner called ‘the Parthenon of Macedonia’ will be opened to the public on Friday (Jan. 5), after the long-term restoration carried out by the Ministry of Culture. The palace was built in the middle of the 4th century BC, by Philip II.
