Symi keeps a full Orthodox religious calendar, and its feasts run from Easter in the spring through the summer panigyria to the great feast of the Archangel Michael at Panormitis Monastery in November. Easter stands as the most important date, with candlelit processions of the Epitaphios through Gialos and Chorio on Good Friday and the … Read more
Thassos festivals crowd the island calendar from late spring through the end of summer, mixing religious feasts, cultural performances and village celebrations. The season opens with saints’ feast days, builds through July and August, and peaks around the Assumption of the Virgin on 15 August. Ancient drama fills the stone theatre above the harbour, panigyria … Read more
Festivals and panigyria give Naxos its living pulse, and the island keeps more of them than any other Cyclade. A panigyri is the village saint’s-day feast, a night of music, wine, food and dancing that fills the mountain squares from June through September. Naxos layers these local feasts over the great Orthodox celebrations: Easter, the … Read more