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Griekse Les | Lato Cultuur Centrum

Cyprus Commandaria: The wine of kings!

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Cyprus is home to the oldest wine produced in the world.

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Milia: the hidden village of Chania

A few kilometers out of Chania, on a slope of Kissamos, hidden among the mountains, lies a village pulled out of another era. On Milia there is no electricity and no cars. Not because they have not reached there, but by choice.

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Women and their role in ancient Greece and Rome

How women were perceived in Ancient Greece has been a subject of much fascination amongst historians. Part of the fascination lies in the contrast between two of the most prominent city-states – Athens and Sparta. Athens didn’t look as favorably upon women as Sparta did.

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Red Easter eggs: What are the hidden symbolisms and why are they red?

One of the most popular Easter customs is the painting of the eggs on Holy Thursday. May be in recent years the eggs are painted in different colors, though the tradition wants them red. It is a fact that there were colored eggs in antiquity, in Rome, in Greece, China, Egypt, as gifts at spring […]

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Words of wisdom from a wine-drinker

A bit of wine, a bit of sea and my boyfriend … as an old Greek song says! No coincidence, of course, since wine is inextricably linked with the Greek tradition and diet. The fact that Greece was by tradition an agricultural society is certainly not without importance.

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Our Mission

Lato as a concept was born out of our love for Greece but her existence and her upward path she owes exclusively to the love of the Dutch for Greece.

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Our Vision

Our vision is to become a cultural platform where everyone could bring and show his work as a piece of Greek culture , whether he is professional or not. Following the African saying: If you want to go fast travel alone if you want to go far, travel with company,

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Our Values

PASSION There is no success without passion.

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