Πανηγύρι Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου Κορυσχάδων

"The two-day panigiri at the eagle's-nest Monastery of Panagia Proussiotissa, built into a vertical Evritanian cliff face since the 12th century, is one of the most dramatic pilgrimage festivals on the Greek mainland, drawing worshippers from across Central Greece."

Πανηγύρι Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου Προύσου

"The annual Dekapentavgoustos panigiri at the revered Monastery of Panagia Proussiotissa in Proussos, deep in the Eurytanian mountains, is the great summer gathering for villages across Central Greece and the diaspora."

Panigyri Panagias Prousiotissas (Πανηγύρι Παναγίας Προυσιώτισσας)

"On Dekapentavgoustos, this legendary Evritanian mountain village holds its grandest annual panigiri, drawing back the diaspora with all-night folk music and dancing at altitude in a dense fir forest."

Πανηγύρι Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου Μικρού Χωριού

"Megalo Chorio, the most populous Evritanian mountain village, marks Dekapentavgoustos with a panigiri combining communal feasting on local goat and tsipouro with traditional Roumeli dimotika dancing on its river-view square."

Πανηγύρι Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου Μεγάλου Χωριού

"Fidakia, the architecturally remarkable serpentine-layout village declared a traditional settlement above Lake Kremasta at 920 metres, celebrates the Assumption with a hillside panigiri whose panoramic views of Greece's largest artificial lake are unmatched in Evritania."

Πανηγύρι Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου Φιδακίων

"Arachova marks Dekapentavgoustos with a full village panigiri at 960 metres on Mount Parnassos, combining the sacred and the communal in the mountain town whose rhythm, as Discover Greece notes, follows the seasons from winter sport to summer festival."

Πανηγύρι Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου Αράχωβας

"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)