Panigiri Fratsias

"Aegina, the pistachio capital of Greece, celebrates its famous Fistiki nut each September with a dedicated festival of tastings, craft stalls, cooking demonstrations, and live music in the harbour town."

Giorti Fistikiou (Pistachio Festival) (Γιορτή Φιστικιού (Pistachio Festival))

"Spetses re-enacts its famous 1822 naval victory over the Ottoman fleet with a spectacular burning of a full-scale ship model in the harbour, backed by fireworks and days of traditional music and dancing in the island's car-free lanes."

Armata (Armata Festival) (Αρμάτα (Armata Festival))

"A traditional panigiri in the mountain shepherds' village of Mitata on Kythira, known for its cheese-making heritage, where the feast brings musicians and dancers together in a high-altitude stone village square."

Panigiri Mitatas

"A panigiri in the tiny Venetian-harbour village of Avlemonas on Kythira, held on the Feast of the Transfiguration with live music and dancing in one of the most photogenic small port settings in the southern Greek islands."

Panigiri Avlemonas

"A village panigiri in the small Kythira settlement of Kastrisianika that opens the island's August festival season, combining an Orthodox feast with the characteristic Kythirian dances including the Karavitikos and the Kalamatianos."

Panigiri Kastrisianikon

"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)