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Categories Events: Event Featured
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Milos, Kipou, Festival of the Virgin Mary
The inhabitants of Milos, maintaining the customs and traditions, organize festivals every year, where everyone is welcome to participate, to taste traditional appetizers, but also traditional dishes of Milos.
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Oenoxeneia 2025
Visitors will also have the opportunity to sample wines from Aigialia’s wineries, explore participating local restaurants, and discover products from prominent producers and farms.
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Sifnos, The Virgin Toso Nero Festival
After the liturgy, the worshipers sit around the “tables of love” to taste revithada, olives, kokkinisto with pasta, and cod during fast. They also drink large quantities of red wine, served in local clay jugs while toasting to the health of the panigiras.
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Tinos, Agapi, Festival of Saint Agapitos
At the heart of the village stands the church of Saint Agapitos (Agios Agapitos), the spiritual centre of Agapi and the focal point of its annual festival.
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Amorgos, Chora, The Pasteli Festival
The Pasteli Festival in Chora, Amorgos Every August, the quiet whitewashed alleys of Chora, the capital of Amorgos, come alive with one of the island’s sweetest traditions: the Pasteli Festival (Γιορτή Παστελιού). Held in Loza Square on the first Sunday after August 15, this beloved event celebrates pasteli, a traditional Cycladic treat made of sesame…
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Euboea, Oxilithos Festival
Built and painted with icons at the end of the 13th century, the Church of the Koimisis tis Theotokou (Assumption of the Virgin Mary) is of cultural and historical importance.
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Paros, Lefkes, Festival of the Karavola
The word karavolas is a Parian expression used to describe a large snail. The celebration is an opportunity for Lefkians to celebrate their love for the karavolas. It occurs next to the white townhall of Lefkes, below the pine forest.
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Olympos, Karpathos, Festival of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Olympos is considered by many to be a living folklore museum – and they are right. In which other villages of Greece do the locals wear their traditional costumes, speak the local dialect, and create elaborate woven pieces and wood carvings? Olympos is undoubtedly a unique village and one of the most beautiful in Greece,…
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Patmos, Festival of the Virgin Mary of Geranos
On the eve of the festival of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (15th of August), after the evening vespers, the famous festival of the Virgin Mary of Geranos takes place. The chapel of “Panagia tou Geranou” is located atop of hill of the region of that name, one of the most beautiful regions of…
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Paros, Festival of The Virgin Mary the Ekatontapiliani
The famous church, that dates from the 4th century, is a magnificent monument of Christianity and one of the greatest early-Christian churches of Greece.