Panigyri Kandilas Xiromerou (Πανηγύρι Κανδήλας Ξηρομέρου)

"The Cultural Association of Sitoména hosts its Dekapentavgoustos panigiri in the village square with named folk singers and a live Aitolian clarinet ensemble."

Panigyri Sitomenon (Dekapentaygoustos) (Πανηγύρι Σιτομένων (Δεκαπενταύγουστος))

"The Cultural Association of Archontochori brings its Dekapentavgoustos night-of-stars celebration to Kandila Xiromerou with live folk singers and an Aitolian clarinet band."

Vradia Asteron Kandilas (Dekapentaygoustos) (Βραδιά Αστέρων Κανδήλας (Δεκαπενταύγουστος))

"The Agios Demetrios chestnut festival in the mountain village of Platanos, Nafpaktia opens October with roasted chestnuts, local traditional dishes, and the hospitality of the forested hills above the Gulf of Corinth."

Γιορτή Κάστανου Αγίου Δημητρίου - Πλάτανος

"In the hidden stone village of Ano Chora deep in the Vardousia mountains, braziers and tsipouro distillation boilers fire up at dawn for a convivial chestnut and spirit festival where local women later bring out handmade pies, baklava, and spoon sweets."

Γιορτή Κάστανου - Άνω Χώρα Ναυπακτίας

"A genuinely local Aitolian village panigiri in Kandila Xiromerou on the feast of Agia Paraskevi, with live clarinet-led traditional music and communal dancing in the village square."

Panigyri Agias Paraskeyis Kandilas (Πανηγύρι Αγίας Παρασκευής Κανδήλας)

"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)