Panigiri festival
Panigiri: basically in English its called festival, it is a tradition mostly in villages, they play traditional greek music, most of the times there are live groups of musicians, people dancing traditional dances and around there is free food and of course marketsApokries: Every year, 3 weeks before the Holy Week, people dress up with costumes and eat meat. This is where the name came from: Apo+kreas. Apo: from, kreas: meat. So, in schools, there is one day that everyone dresses up (like halloween) and have fun. Its basically a carnival, the biggest one is in Patra, there are chariots with masked people on!
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