Italy

Paolo Scagliarini, from Bari, spoke about his family’s history on the program “Our Global Voice” with Dimitris Kontogiannis. His family fled Smyrna during the Smyrna Catastrophe, later moved to Rhodes, and eventually returned to Italy in 1946–1947, following the Dodecanese incorporation into Greece....

Nikos Frangos, President of the Hellenic Institute of Culture in Italy, and Lia Drosou, Deputy Mayor of Oraiokastro for Contemporary Culture, Outreach, Tourism Development, and Companion Animal Protection, spoke about the newly established sister city agreement between the Italian village of Bodio Lomnago in the Lombardy Region and the Municipality of Oraiokastro in Thessaloniki. The discussion took place on the Voice of Greece radio program “Our Global Voice,” hosted by Dimitris Kontogiannis, following the recent visit of an Italian delegation led by the Mayor of Bodio Lomnago to Thessaloniki. The partnership is the result of a joint participation by the ... Read more

Daniel Makris, President of the Greek Community of Messina in Sicily, joined the radio program “Our Global Voice” with Dimitris Kontogiannis on Voice of Greece. He spoke about his family’s history, as well as that of the city’s Greek-descended residents, tracing their roots back several centuries. Mr. Makris ...