At the festivals of Naxos and the Small Cyclades, dance, singing and food combine to create a framework where both locals and guests have the opportunity to have fun until the morning.   ...

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When sailors and seafarers from the islands of Τsirigo and Kythira, survived a sea storm just outside of Naxos, they built a little church on an islet, in the middle of the harbor dedicated to Panagia ...

Naxos’s patron saint, Agios Nikodemos Agioritis, is honored in main town Chora on July 14. Events culminate in the litany of the holy icon and attract many visitors from neighboring islands and many p ...

The important holiday of Isodia Theotokou (Entrance of Virgin Mary into the Temple) is celebrated in splendor and with the attendance of large crowds at the Church of Panagia Chryssopolitissa -- Chora ...

After the end of Holy Mass in the church in Kourounochori on Epiphany Day, January 6, the priest and the congregation descend to the Trano gardens below for the ceremony of the blessing of the waters. ...

In the villages of Kourounochori and Myli, after the Vespers of Love late Easter Sunday afternoon, the congregation of the church follows the processional litany of the icon of the Resurrection around ...