On December 1, 2022, the Instituto Cervantes de Atenas hosted an Archaeological Research Conference entitled “Mediterranean connections. Present and future perspectives of Spain archaeological research in continental Greece and the Aegean”, organized by the Embajada de España en Grecia and the Instituto Cervantes de Atenas. The Conference presented the results of different archaeological projects carried out in Greece by Spanish researchers. These interventions have now been published in a volume edited by the organizing institutions, with the support of Casa Mediterráneo in Alicante, which demonstrates the importance of the projects led by Spain related to the research of Greek archaeological heritage, such as the interventions carried out in the city of Corinth or in the territory of Epirus. The volume, made up of twelve chapters, has been edited (in Spanish and English) by Horacio González Cesteros and Jaime Almansa Sánchez, and has introductions written by the Spanish ambassador to Greece, Carles Casajuana Palet, the director of the Instituto Cervantes de Atenas, Pilar Tena, and Andrés Perelló Rodríguez, general director of Casa Mediterráneo, who raise the need for the creation a Spanish centre for Hellenic studies in Athens. It is a long demand of Spanish research that, incomprehensibly and after several failed attempts, is still not a reality. We hope that in the not too distant future the creation of this Spanish centre in Athens can materialize, similar to the centenary Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma.
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