25 MARS

It is the Greek national holiday, commemorating the beginning of the war of independence against the Ottoman Empire, symbolically launched on March 25, 1821 in the Peloponnese and officially institutionalized in 1838. According to the Orthodox religious calendar, March 25 is also the day of the Annunciation. Thus, the choice of the date of this first national holiday of the modern Greek state has a religious dimension: the cause was just and could only be victorious because blessed by God! Public holiday in the whole country