This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Categories Events: Event Featured
-
Skyros, Festival of Saint Ermolaos
The day before the Festival of St.Ermolaos, the uninhabited islet just off the island of Skyros is visited by mothers of various ages to clean the interior of the church and the courtyard so that the Saint will keep their children healthy the following year.
-
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…
-
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.
-
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.
-
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…
-
Tinos, Arnados, Festival of Aghii Anargyri
The village of Arnados is found in the eastern section of the Kechrovounio Monastery. The village lies at an altitude of 450m, the highest and one of the oldest villages on the island.
-
Triantaros, Celebration of Fat Thursday
At a coffee house in the village of Triantaros village on the island of Tinos, Tsiknopempti the locals perform the traditional “Carnival Dance” and “The Spelling Book of Love”.
-
Thebes, Celebration of Fat Thursday
The wedding is a satirical rendition of a shepherd’s marriage which became a carnival custom in Thebes sometime in the mid-19th century.
-
Astypalaia, Festival of Panagia Flevariotissa
The monastery of Madonna Flavariotissa , is a complex of buildings, consisting of the main temple and a series of low buildings that form a big internal patio between them. The church is white, of the Cycladic style, with a lot of arches.
-
Carnival of Karditsa, Sofades
On Tsiknopempti (The Thursday of Grilled Meat), a treasure hunt takes place. A parade on Sunday is followed by a huge celebration. The municipality provides meals of lamb with groats.