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One year after the successfully achieved organization of Athens Digital Week, Techonopolis in Gazi Athens opens again its gates in order to repeat this festival for the second time.

After their first and amazingly successful show in Thessaloniki in 1997, U2 are back in Greece for a unique show on the 3rd of September 2010, this time in Athens OAKA Stadium.

On October 9th, MTV Greece will celebrate their one year airing anniversary with a unique concert with headliners Tokio Hotel.

Two parrarel exhibitions of Andy Warhol will be displayed in Athens the following days.

The past and the present of the Greek engraving art from the early 20th century till today will be presented till June 28th in the Municipal Gallery of Piraeus.

The 2nd Town for Kids Festival will take place the last weekend of May (30 and 31 May) in the Military Park of Goudi, Athens.

The annual Book Fair that was held for years in the street of Dionysiou Areopagirou will move this year and will be organized in the paved part of Ermou street, between the traditional neighbourhood of Thissio and the developing area of Gazi.

Carlos Santana, the famous Mexican latin-rock guitarist, will give a musical concert in Athens on July 8th, 2009, as part of his European summer tour.

The 3rd Festival for the Greek Olive and Olive Oil will be held on April 10-12 in the Peace and Friendship Stadium, Athens.

More than 5,000 visitors visited last year Comicdom Con Athens, the festival of comics. This festival will be organized again next month in the building of the Greek American Union, in the centre of Athens.

Irvin Yalom, the famous American psychotherapist, is coming to Athens at the end of this month to give a lecture in Athens Concert Hall. The title of the lecture is "View to the sun: Get over the horror of death".

The Greek mountains Olympus and Taigetos and the mountain chain of Pindos are some among the "holy" mountains whose paintings will be presented in an exhibition that will take place in the Metro Station of Syntagma square.

The RockWave Tradition goes on... This summer, the 13th Rockwave Festival will be held again in the gorgeous Terra Vibe Park in Malakasa, about 60 km from Athens.

The Cultural Centre "Lambros Kanellopoulos" in Elefsina, about 20 km from Athens, inaugurates on Friday, April 3rd, the photograph exhibition of Konstantinos Andronis.

Herakleidon Museum is preparing an honorable exhibition to women that will be presented on the International Day of Women on March, 8th, with posters for violence against women.