Αλευρομουτζούρωμα Γαλαξιδίου / Alevromoutzouroma of Galaxidi (Flour War)
On Clean Monday, the small maritime town of Galaxidi erupts in its centuries-old Flour War, as revellers pelt each other with coloured and plain flour on the harbourfront in a Byzantine tradition unique to this one Phocis port.
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"The two-day panigiri at the eagle's-nest Monastery of Panagia Proussiotissa, built into a vertical Evritanian cliff face since the 12th century, is one of the most dramatic pilgrimage festivals on the Greek mainland, drawing worshippers from across Central Greece."
Πανηγύρι Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου Προύσου
"The annual Dekapentavgoustos panigiri at the revered Monastery of Panagia Proussiotissa in Proussos, deep in the Eurytanian mountains, is the great summer gathering for villages across Central Greece and the diaspora."
Panigyri Panagias Prousiotissas (Πανηγύρι Παναγίας Προυσιώτισσας)
"On Dekapentavgoustos, this legendary Evritanian mountain village holds its grandest annual panigiri, drawing back the diaspora with all-night folk music and dancing at altitude in a dense fir forest."
Πανηγύρι Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου Μικρού Χωριού
"Megalo Chorio, the most populous Evritanian mountain village, marks Dekapentavgoustos with a panigiri combining communal feasting on local goat and tsipouro with traditional Roumeli dimotika dancing on its river-view square."
Πανηγύρι Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου Μεγάλου Χωριού
"Koryschades, the well-preserved Resistance village just 6 km from Karpenisi that served as the wartime provisional capital of Greece, holds its Assumption panigiri around its listed school square, blending living folk tradition with tangible history."
Πανηγύρι Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου Κορυσχάδων
"Fidakia, the architecturally remarkable serpentine-layout village declared a traditional settlement above Lake Kremasta at 920 metres, celebrates the Assumption with a hillside panigiri whose panoramic views of Greece's largest artificial lake are unmatched in Evritania."
Πανηγύρι Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου Φιδακίων
"Each mid-August, small cross-marked snakes appear inside the church of Panagia Fidousa and are reverently handled by pilgrims as a sign of blessing, making Markopoulo's Dormition feast the most extraordinary folk-religious event in the Ionian Islands."
Panigiri Panagia Fidoussa (Snake Festival)
"Each year on the Dormition of the Virgin, small harmless snakes appear inside the church of Markopoulo village and are venerated by the faithful as a miraculous blessing, drawing visitors from across Kefalonia to this extraordinary and ancient folk custom."
Panigyri Markopoulou (Festival ton Fidion) (Πανηγύρι Μαρκοπούλου (Φεστιβάλ των Φιδιών))