Panegyri Taxiarchon Prastou

"The largest trade fair and panigiri in the whole of Arcadia and the Peloponnese, held at the ancient village of Tegea since time immemorial, filling a field near the church with klarino music, roasting pork, vendors, rides, and circle dancing that lasts until dawn."

Panigyri Tegeas (Πανηγύρι Τεγέας)

"A remote Mani village panigiri for the Dormition of the Virgin, celebrated with an evening procession of the icon followed by all-night music and dancing in the stone-paved square of one of the Mani Peninsula's most traditional inland communities."

Panigiri Koimisis Theotokou

"One of the Mani peninsula's most vibrant village panigiria, held on the Dormition feast in the hillside village of Milea, with the evening vespers procession, communal tables, live bouzouki and lyra music, and dancing that continues until dawn in a setting of dramatic Maniot tower-house scenery."

Πανηγύρι Κοίμησης Θεοτόκου, Μηλέα

"A long-established Mani village panigiri in Rigklia on Dekapentavgoustos, where the evening litany of the Virgin's icon gives way to all-night traditional Greek dancing and communal feasting in the shadow of the village's ancient stone towers."

Πανηγύρι Κοίμησης Θεοτόκου, Ρίγκλια

"The Mani village of Exochori, perched above the Stoupa coast in Messenia, hosts one of the peninsula's characterful Dormition panigiria, combining a morning liturgy and evening procession with live traditional music, local food, and dancing under the stars in a village square of outstanding natural beauty."

Πανηγύρι Κοίμησης Θεοτόκου, Εξωχώρι

"Each September around 30 Nemea wineries simultaneously open their cellars for tastings of Agiorgitiko, Greece's mythic red grape, with masterclasses, a street wine festival on Dervenakia, and a symposium that frames the harvest weekend."

Megales Meres tis Nemeas

"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)