European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas visited the town of Elefsina on Tuesday for the declaration of Elefsina as the Cultural Capital of Europe 2023. Schinas met with mayor Argiris Economou and the board of the municipality’s company, Eleusis 2023. In his speech, Schinas underlined that “the particularity of the challenge for a town such as Elefsina is to prove that different is nice”.
Mystery 199 Vangelis Tsakos – Thanos Tsingos
17.04.2024—19.05.2024
From 17 April to 19 May, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture presents Mystery 199 Vangelis Tsakos – Thanos Tsingos, an exhibition – tribute to two great artists of Elefsina, the award-winning photographer Vangelis Tsakos and the internationally acclaimed artist Thanos Tsingos at the Old Town Hall of Elefsina. Photographic and painting works, testimonies, publications, exceptional editions and valuable materials, products of extensive research, describe their history and highlight just a small part of the particularly rich but also unique work of the two artists.