Listed 100 (total found 134) sub titles with search on: Festivals and fairs for wider area of: "THESSALIA Region GREECE" .
ALONISSOS (Port) NORTH SPORADES
This year's carnival procession who took place on the last Sunday
of the carnival period (17 March 2002), was the most succesful one.
The majority of the local people took place in this year's carnival
procession, with a lot of different themes, like the teams from the Circus, the
Pyramid and the mummies, the Egyptians, Octopuses, Big brothers, Indians, Earth,
Greek revolution, etc.
All the people who are participating at the carnival parade, start
from the square at the front of town hall of Alonissos, and they go down to the
port of Patitiri.
The first stop is there and all the people dance traditional songs
and they sing carnival songs. The nice thing with the carnival songs is that the
lyrics change every year, with spicy and kinky content taken from the everyday
life of the people living in the island.
After the parade goes around the village of Patiriri with another
stop at the neighborhood of Agia Paraskeui. Then the parade continues to Votsi,
and back to the town hall where the participants dance around the fire, drinking
refreshments and wine offered by the municipality of Alonissos from special dressed
employees of the municipality.
Enjoy some of the photos taken from the this year's carnival.
This text is cited Mar 2003 from the Municipality of Alonissos URL below, which contains images.
AGIOS IOANNIS (PRODROMOS (Settlement) ZAGORA-MOURESI
24/6
KAPADOKIKO (Village) KARDITSA
6/1/2002
MAKRINITSA (Village) VOLOS
The unique dance-mimicking folklore custom of "Maedon" with roots in Dionysic
worship, refered to the revival of nature and life and is revived every year in
summer from the village's young people.
PORTARIA (Village) VOLOS
The Pelioritic Wedding consists of a series of traditional customs
which indirectly suggest and express the union, the total participation and identification
of the guests from all the village with the new couple. Simple, joking, tolerant
and poetic words and expressive gestures.
Popular road theatre and dancing. Moments from the past, transport
by animals, offering sweets and tsipouro, which not only teach us a lot about
our ancestors but offer a live experience.
In this way tradition is not a museum object nor a dream. It is the
expression of living beings and small dramas which exist in our collective unconscious.
The conversation with the bride and bridegroom whose names have been forgotten,
is continuous, whispered and direct.
The revival of the traditions of the Pelioritic wedding are the most
important event and also the closing ceremony of the cultural festival.
This effort started in the sixties from a group of local residents,
aiming to preserve and diffuse the wedding customs in Pelion, as they were in
the past. From then on and for 27 years, with few exceptions, the revival of the
wedding customs is held during the second half of August, with the participation
of many local residents from the village and from all over the area.
One year in fact a real wedding was actually celebrated, because a
local couple chose to be united by marriage in the traditional way. Also other
couples who on various occasions played the role of bride and bridegroom in the
revival of the Pelioritic wedding successively were married. So, further to preserving
and diffusing the tradition, the revival of this custom brought luck to some couples.
The engagement ceremony, which always precedes the wedding in Pelion,
takes place in the «Melina Merkouri» square in front of the two Pelioritic rooms
belonging to the bride and bridegroom which have been constructed on purpose with
all the old house implements, which are gathered from the old mansions of Portaria.
The Pelioritic wedding began eight days before the Sunday on which
the ceremony was celebrated. It started with the custom of cutting the wedding
dress which took place in the bride's home. The wedding dress was not white as
is the fashion nowadays, but consisted of the traditional costume of Pelion.
The wedding was organized by the "Bratimia" (the special friends of
the bride and brodegroom). On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday friends and relatives
were involved in gathering and arranging the dowery.
Afterwards came the "flouring" according to this custom the bridegroom
with the "Bratimia" visited the bride's home and threw flour on the dough from
which the wedding cake would be made. Of course first they were given silver coins.
With the same flour they would sprinkle the bride and bridegroom so that they
would grow old with white hair.
On Friday the "Keratzides" (cart-drivers) with musical organs and
their horses gaily decorated, carried the dowry through the picturesque cobbled
streets and finally reaching the central square where the wedding dress is cut.
On Sunday the bridegroom is shaved, with the accompaniment of gunfire, the first
"bratimo" is offered sweets by the bride and the announcement is made that the
wedding will commence. The bride starts out, followed by a procession, the bride
and bridegroom return, the wedding feast, the bridegroom is hung by the "Bratimia",
the bride makes votive promises, the pitcher is filled from the fountain in the
central square, the pitcher is then broken, and finally the bridegroom buys all
the necessary items for the new household.
The closing ceremony is accompanied by satirical verses. After one
week the newly married couple are invited to the bridegroom's house for dinner.
This revival is an effort made by the Cultural Association of the
Municipality so as to preserve the customs and the traditional heritage of our
region. It offers the occasion to the older generation to remember and the younger
people to learn how weddings were celebrated in Pelion in the old days. It is
a wedding completely different from any other, and the only one for which you
can wish to see it again next year!
During both evenings visitors can watch traditional folklore dancing
from Pelion and other parts of Greece, by the dance group «ORMINIO».
In the central square an exhibition of local products is held, in
a specially planned space, also local wine and tsipouro are offered to everybody,
accompanied by snacks, becuase at a wedding all the guests must be made welcome.
The event is followed by a popular feast.
This text is cited September 2004 from the Municipality of Portaria URL below, which contains images
TRIKERI (Port) SOUTH PELION
6/2002
AGIOS DIMITRIOS (Village) KARDITSA
26/10/2003
21/5/2004
AGIOS DIMITRIOS PELIO (Village) ZAGORA-MOURESI
8/5/2002
AGIOS IOANNIS PILION (Port) ZAGORA-MOURESI
24/6
AGIOS LAVRENTIOS (Village) VOLOS
1/6/2002
20/6/2002
AGIOS NIKOLAOS (Village) ELATI
26/7
6/12
AGIOS VLASSIOS (Village) VOLOS
24/7/2002
ALONISSOS (Village) NORTH SPORADES
15/8/2002
ARGALASTI (Village) SOUTH PELION
29/6
20/7
In Katsilochori settlement
6/12/2002
6/8
At the homonymic church
29/8
30/6
BELOKOMITI (Village) KARDITSA
30/6
CHORTO (Settlement) SOUTH PELION
8/9
DROSSOCHORI (Village) TRIKALA
29/6
23/8
15/8
6/8
at Agia Triada Monastery
KALAMOS (Settlement) SOUTH PELION
26/7
20/7
27/8
24/9
The festival of Panaghia Megalou Genous is celebrated in the small chapel dedicated
to the Holy Virgin in the Municipal Compartment of Katihori, on August 24th. Blessed
bread is offered in the church courtyard and the visitors can taste sweets and
refreshments.
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Blessed bread is offered in the church courtyard and the event is followed by a popular folklore feast.
KISSOS (Village) ZAGORA-MOURESI
17/7
KORYDALLOS (Village) KALAMBAKA
15/8
LEFOKASTRO (Settlement) SOUTH PELION
27/7
15/8
METOCHI (Village) SOUTH PELION
15/8
MONI KOIMISSEOS THEOTOKOU XENIAS (Monastery) ALMYROS
22/8/2002 - 23/8/2002
MONI KORONIS (Monastery) KARDITSA
4/12
MORFOVOUNI (Small town) KARDITSA
5/1/2002
15/8
NEOCHORI (Village) NEVROPOLI AGRAFA
17/7
15/8
On the first Fiday after Easter
20/7
NERAIDOCHORI (Village) TRIKALA
26/7
PALTSI (Settlement) SOUTH PELION
6/9
6/8
15/8
8/9
30/6
17/7
5/8 - 6/8
14/8 - 15/8
15/8
POTISTIKA (Settlement) SOUTH PELION
16/12
SKIATHOS (Island) NORTH SPORADES
14/8/2002 - 15/8/2002
Procession of the epitaph of the Virgin Mary on the 15th of August at the monastery of Evangelistria.
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