2024
DORMITION DE LA VIERGE
Religious festival
The Dormition is celebrated all over the country, with particular ...Read more
2024
LUNDI GRAS
Religious festival
Read moreForty days before the Orthodox Easter begins a period of fasting during which practitioners abstain from eating meat, poultry and fish. The day marking the beginning of Lent is Fat Monday (one day after Carnival). People go to the countryside and fly kites. We eat shellfish, the famous tarama and lagana, a kind of unleavened bread. It is a holiday in Crete (and in Greece), and is an opportunity to celebrate with ouzo and raki in public squares or in front of chapels.
Rethymnon