The areas hit worst by wildfires in Greece are the seaside communities of Mati and Kineta. Mati is a popular summer camp and resort town about 21 miles east of Athens.

More than 25 areas were forced to evacuate residents, government officials said, along with at least three hospitals. As the flames closed in on backyards on the outskirts of Athens, some ...

As the best-preserved Doric temple in Greece and the site of a Latin epitaph composed by Byron for a friend unlucky enough to die in Athens, the Theseion attracts a steady procession of visitors.