Πανηγύρι Γέννησης Θεοτόκου - Κήποι

"A traditional panigiri in the breathtaking stone-built Vlach mountain village of Syrrako, inscribed on Greece's National Intangible Cultural Heritage register, combining Epirotic polyphonic music and communal feasting at one of the highest and most remote villages in mainland Greece."

Panigyri Syrrakou (Πανηγύρι Συρράκου)

"The Assumption panigiri in Tsepelovo, the largest of the Zagori villages with its grand Epirote mansions and central plane-tree square, is the region's most prominent mid-August celebration, drawing diaspora and visitors for clarino music and all-night tsamiko dancing."

Πανηγύρι Κοίμησης Θεοτόκου - Τσεπέλοβο

"Vitsa's Assumption panigiri is a quintessential Zagori village celebration held in a compact stone-paved square where Epirote clarino melodies and communal tsamiko dancing carry on in an entirely traditional way until morning."

Πανηγύρι Κοίμησης Θεοτόκου - Βίτσα

"Dilofo, lauded by Discover Greece for its outstanding traditional architecture and the view on entering the village, holds its Assumption panigiri among cobbled lanes and neoclassical mansions in a setting rarely matched in the Zagori region."

Πανηγύρι Κοίμησης Θεοτόκου - Δίλοφο

"Koukouli's intimate Assumption panigiri takes place in one of the most architecturally harmonious Zagori stone villages, home to the Lazarides Natural History Museum, where the whole community gathers for a night of traditional Epirote music."

Πανηγύρι Κοίμησης Θεοτόκου - Κουκούλι

"Asprangeli's Assumption panigiri is one of the lesser-visited August 15 celebrations in Zagori, offering travellers an authentically local experience of Epirote folk dancing and clarino music away from the more famous village squares."

Πανηγύρι Κοίμησης Θεοτόκου - Ασπράγγελοι

"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)