Twenty three students from the 4th Veria high school who were on a school trip to St Petersburg are safe, Greece’s general consul to the city, Panos Beglitis, told the press on Monday.

The work “The experiment of Larissa – the Sculpted River – developing water codes in the centre of the city of Larissa” will contest for the Council of Europe’s Landscape Award.

Figures from the depths of time made of clay and water, a microcosmos of clay, gods and godesses, people and visions over the centuries compose a very important temporary exhibition entitled "Figurines. A microcosmos of clay" that opened on Monday at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.