A bazaar for selling, buying and trading horses and mules
The riders make a circle around the chapel. They start galloping around it many times. They are holding the icon and keep on yelling.
The festival of Skala Sikamia celebrates Saint Nicolas earlier, on a hidden small beach in Serifos Island.
Every year, a few days before the Assumption of Mary, the snakes get out nearby the church of Mary of the snakes. Crowds of believers come by to see the snakes and even touch them so that they get blessed by them.
Ashura. Shi'a Muslims commemorate the death of Husayn ibn Ali.
Very different New Year celebration with groups of brass instrument players, playing and dancing around the town
Purpuris will be visiting the houses of the village and dance around their yards. He will wish prosperity and fertility for the year to come and the house owner will treat him with food and drinks, usually Tsipouro.
After three and a half hours we had walked the whole village and visited every house. The koudouniarides had sung and danced all this time but i was the only one feeling tired and frozen.
Carnival in the Macedonian warrior uniform