Απόκριες Σκοπέλου / Apokries Skopelos (Full Carnival Season)

"Described as one of the best wine festivals in Thessaly, the Wine Festival of Mesenikolas in the Karditsa uplands sees the local cultural association distribute free wine and host traditional dancing across several days each August."

Γιορτή Κρασιού Μεσενικόλα

"One of the most popular Assumption Day panigiria in Pelion, held in the stone-paved square of Vizitsa, a beautifully preserved traditional village listed as a protected monument."

Panigyri Panagias, Koimisi Theotokou, Vyzitsa (Πανηγύρι Παναγίας, Κοίμηση Θεοτόκου, Βυζίτσα)

"A particularly popular Assumption Day panigiri in the seaside village of Kala Nera on the Pagasetic Gulf, gathering large crowds for dancing, tsipouro and traditional food by the shore."

Panigyri Panagias, Koimisi Theotokou, Kala Nera (Πανηγύρι Παναγίας, Κοίμηση Θεοτόκου, Καλά Νερά)

"A pan-Hellenic pilgrimage and two-day panigiri at Agios Lavrentios honouring the saint Apostolos the New, drawing devout pilgrims and festival-goers from across Greece to this forested Pelion village."

Panigyri Agiou Apostolou tou Neou, Agios Layrentios (Πανηγύρι Αγίου Αποστόλου του Νέου, Άγιος Λαυρέντιος)

"An Assumption Day panigiri in the remote southern Pelion village of Neochori, with traditional dancing and feasting under the plane trees of the village square."

Panigyri Panagias, Neochori (Πανηγύρι Παναγίας, Νεοχώρι)

"An intimate Assumption Day panigiri in the small chestnut-forested village of Xourichti in central Pelion, known for its chestnut festival traditions and lively summer celebrations."

Panigyri Panagias, Xourichti (Πανηγύρι Παναγίας, Ξουρίχτι)

"At the remote village church of Panagia Lagouvardas in Markopoulo on Kefalonia, harmless small snakes bearing a natural cross-shaped marking on their heads appear each year around the icon of the Virgin in a phenomenon revered by the village since the 16th century, drawing pilgrims for the entire period up to Dekapentavgoustos."

Panigiri Παναγίας Φιδούσας, Markopoulo

"Astypalaia's three-day Dekapentavgoustos celebration is centred on the Monastery of Portaitissa, which crowns the medieval Chora above the Aegean, with processions, traditional island music, and the communal feast of stuffed lamb known as labrino unique to this butterfly-shaped island."

Panigiri Παναγίας Ποιτιτίσσας, Chora

"In the remote Sfakia hamlet of Kalikratis, the cultural club cooks and distributes traditional Cretan food at morning congregation on the Dormition, followed by an all-night Cretan feast in a rarely visited corner of the White Mountains."

Panigyri Koimisis Theotokou - Kalikratis (Πανηγύρι Κοίμησης Θεοτόκου - Καλικράτης)

"At the abandoned-and-partly-revived Sfakian village of Asfendos, the Dormition feast draws returnees and visitors for free boiled meat, rice pilaf, and an open-air Cretan glendi in an eerily beautiful mountain bowl."

Panigyri Koimisis Theotokou - Asfentos (Πανηγύρι Κοίμησης Θεοτόκου - Ασφέντος)

"In the heart of one of Crete's great wine villages, Ano Archanes celebrates Panagia Faneromeni with Byzantine vespers on the eve and a lyra-and-laouto glendi the following night in its iconic vine-shaded square."

Panigyri Panagias Faneromenis - Ano Archanes (Πανηγύρι Παναγίας Φανερωμένης - Άνω Αρχάνες)

"At the Church of Gonia in Kolymbari, the Dormition eve brings a procession of the Virgin's icon through the village with military honours, followed by all-night vigil and a traditional Cretan glendi, one of the most ceremonially complete panigiria on the Chania coast."

Panigyri Koimisis Theotokou - Kolymvari (Πανηγύρι Κοίμησης Θεοτόκου - Κολυμβάρι)