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Categories Events: Event Featured
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Paros, Kostos, Festival of St. Panteleimon
One of the sights not to be missed on the island of Paros is the church of St. Panteleimon of Kostos, protector of the village. The church is built next to a small grove of trees.
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Amorgos, Festival of Aghia Paraskevi – July 26
The festival of Agia Paraskevi at Kato Meria in Amorgos is the largest traditional festival of the Cyclades.
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Tinos, Festival of Santa Pelagia
The vision of Agia (Santa) Pelagia, which occasioned the discovery of an icon of the Virgin Mary, is celebrated annually on the 23rd of July. During the month of July 1823, the elderly Pelagia, a seventy-year-old nun of the Monastery of Kekchrovounio had two dreams in which the Virgin Mary revealed where an icon of…
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Sifnos, Festival of the Prophet Elias Apsilos
In the center of an interior courtyard lies the church of Prophet Elias, cruciform in layout with a dome and narthex as well as an impressive belfry. Around the courtyard are monks’ cells, a dining room, and auxiliary spaces. On the eve of the feast, the evening prayer is chanted and artoklasia follows.
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Paros, Kostos, Festival of Santa Marina
It is a small, picturesque village, with modest white houses, churches and narrow lanes. Among the village’s houses is one that belonged to the great “Teacher of the Greek Nation”, St. Athanasios the Parian (1721-1813), a prominent figure of 18th-century monasticism.
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Crete, Lissos, Festival of Agios Kirykos
On the 15th of July, the faithful arrive, either on foot or by boat, from Sougia, early in the afternoon of prior evening. A wonderful festival at a mythical site.
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Tinos, Festival of the Monastery of the Sacred Heart
Exomvourgo (also called Xomvourgo), dominates the heart of Tinos at an imposing 540 metre-high granite outcrop, which offers an enchanting view and where the island’s ancient acropolis was built, to be succeeded by a Venetian fort. In today’s Exomvourgo, three structures have managed to resist deterioration, thanks to the care shown by the faithful: two…
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Euboea, Chiliadou, Strapones, Squid Festival
At the squid festival of Chiliadou coal-roasted squid is offered following a fishing contest. The person who catches the most squid is the winner and a lively revelry takes place in the evening. Chiliadou is well known for this festival and is famed for its extensive pebbly beach, its rock-climbing fields, but also its serenity…
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Paros, Naoussa, Fish Festival
Naousa’s Fish festival was first organized in the early 1970s by a group of friends, fishermen of Paros. Originally, it was is held in Mandraki, the small port at Naousa.
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Kythnos, Loutra, The Saints Anargyri Festival
A large number of visitors come here every year because it has been shown that the warm springs are recommended as therapy for rheumatic, arthritic, and gynecological illnesses.