Epirus, Πανελλαδικά(Region: Epirus, Πανελλαδικά)

The first Christmas tree in Greece was King’s George fir, in 1834. It was decorated out of his house in Nafplio. It was a very strange spectacle for ...

"The lighted kermes oak" When Christ was born and the shepherds went to worship, the night was dark. They found dry kermes oak somewhere and cut its ...

When the conversation about the dowry was over, favorable, of course, then they all gave their hands, wished and kissed. Immediately the light was on ...

After the end of the matchmaking, the giving of the hands, the composition of the provisional matchmaking agreement, the diadems and the engagement, ...

On Sunday morning, at the bride's home was taking place a kind of exhibition of her dowry (paea) and her gifts. The quantity and type of dowry judged ...

Bumpkin wedding (Vlachikos Gamos) It is a comic representation of the Bumpkin wedding, as it used to be. Scenes that cause laugh are the come and go ...

Every year the Women's Carnival takes place. It is an event organized by groups of women (exclusively). Every Wednesday before Carnival they parade ...

Maria Kallas (Maria Sophia Anna Cecilia Kalogeropoulou was her full name) was a world famous soprano. In her short life she became a legend of the ...

Elias Venezis was a Greek writer, one of the most important exponents of “Generation of Thirties”. His work looks at all the facts that came before ...

Here also takes place the Carnival of Women every year. It is a custom of many decades, requiring only women participation. On Tsiknopempti a parade ...