Κουδουνοφόροι Σοχού / Koudounoforoi of Sohos (Bell-Bearers)

"Megali Panagia, a village at the foot of Mount Holomontas in Chalkidiki, has been a pilgrimage destination for the whole of northern Greece on 15 August, with pilgrims camping around the monastery and a great overnight panigiri filling the village."

Panigyri Koimisis Theotokou Megalis Panagias (Πανηγύρι Κοίμησης Θεοτόκου Μεγάλης Παναγίας)

"Herakleia's great August fair in the Serres plain is one of the oldest traditional trade-and-festival gatherings in northern Greece, transforming the village centre for five days with market stalls, traditional music, and Macedonian folk dancing."

Aygoustiatiki Emporopanigyri Irakleias Serron (Αυγουστιάτικη Εμποροπανήγυρη Ηράκλειας Σερρών)

"On 23 August Nea Roda, at the neck of the Athos peninsula, pairs its traditional all-night Panagia panigiri with the Sardine and Anchovy Festival, making it one of the most joyfully specific food-and-faith celebrations in Chalkidiki."

Panigyri 9imerou Panagias kai Giorti tis Sardelas, Nea Roda (Πανηγύρι 9ήμερου Παναγίας και Γιορτή της Σαρδέλας, Νέα Ρόδα)

"Nea Fokea's Tsipouro Feast is a convivial late-summer gathering at which the fishing village shares its fiery home-distilled spirit with live music and communal tables under the evening sky."

Γιορτή Τσίπουρου

"The Mushroom Festival in the pine-forested mountain village of Taxiarchis combines a communal foray into the surrounding woods with a traditional feast celebrating Halkidiki's wild mushroom harvest."

Γιορτή Μανιταριού

"Nea Gonia, a small Chalkidiki village, celebrates the Nativity of the Virgin over two days with visiting dance ensembles and choral groups performing traditional Macedonian songs and dances in the village square."

Panigyri Gennisis Theotokou Neas Gonias (Πανηγύρι Γέννησης Θεοτόκου Νέας Γωνίας)

"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)