The Calendar
A year of rare openings and private hours across Greece — what to see, when to be there, and why it is worth crossing a sea for.
July 2026
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Exhibition
Lamassu of Nineveh
Acropolis Museum, Athens
Michael Rakowitz's Lamassu of Nineveh holds the Acropolis Museum's Outdoor Garden through 31 October 2026 — the Fourth Plinth winged bull, rebuilt from Iraqi date-syrup cans, in its closing season be…
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Festival
The Naxos Festival
Bazeos Tower, Naxos
The Naxos Festival is the AEON Cultural Organization's annual summer arts festival at Bazeos Tower, a seventeenth-century fortified tower on Naxos; the 26th edition runs from 31 May to 11 October 202…
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Exhibition
Athens Photo Festival
Benaki Museum / Pireos 138, Athens
The Athens Photo Festival is the Hellenic Centre for Photography's annual photography festival, held at the Benaki Museum / Pireos 138 in Athens. The 2026 edition runs from 10 June to 26 July, with s…
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Exhibition
The EMST Summer Openings
EMST — National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
EMST opens three exhibitions on 11 June 2026: a George Lappas survey curated by Daphne Vitali, a permanent-collection rehang titled South by Southeast directed by Katerina Gregos, and Margarita Athan…
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Exhibition
Germaine Richier (1902–1959): Conversations
Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros
Germaine Richier (1902–1959): Conversations is a temporary exhibition of the French sculptor's work at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Andros, running from 14 June to 27 September 2026 in the museu…
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Exhibition
Nari Ward: "Until That Day"
DESTE Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra
The DESTE Foundation annual Hydra commission opens on 23 June 2026 with "Until That Day" by Nari Ward, held in the DESTE Project Space at the former slaughterhouse on Hydra, and runs through 31 Octob…
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Festival
The Athens & Epidaurus Festival
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Argolis
The Athens & Epidaurus Festival stages ancient drama at the theatre of Epidaurus across the summer of 2026, opening with Aeschylus's Persians on 3 July and closing with Euripides's Ion on 28 and 29 A…
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Festival
The Olympus Festival
Ancient Theatre of Dion, Pieria
The 55th Olympus Festival runs from 4 July to 8 September 2026 at the Ancient Theatre of Dion and other sites in Pieria, opening with a music-theatre tribute to the Cretan singer Nikos Xylouris under…
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Regatta
The Aegean 600
Cape Sounion, Attica
The Aegean 600 is the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club's flagship offshore race: a non-stop 605-nautical-mile loop through the Aegean Sea. The sixth edition starts at Cape Sounion on 5 July 2026 and fin…
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Gastronomy
Epicurean Tables
One&Only Aesthesis, Glyfada, Athens Riviera
Epicurean Tables is a series of four-hands guest-chef dinners at Ora by Ettore Botrini, on the Athens Riviera; the July edition pairs Botrini with Mickael Viljanen of the two-Michelin-star Chapter On…
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Conference
The Economist Government Roundtable
Grand Resort Lagonissi
The 30th Economist Government Roundtable is a three-day policy and economic conference held at the Grand Resort Lagonissi from 8 to 10 July 2026, convening the Greek government with international pol…
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Festival
The Philippi Festival
Ancient Theatre of Philippi, Kavala
The Philippi Festival is an annual performing-arts festival staged in the ancient theatre of Philippi — a city founded by Philip II in 356 BC, with its archaeological site inscribed by UNESCO in 2016…
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Gastronomy
Sani Gourmet
Sani Resort, Halkidiki
Sani Gourmet is an annual visiting-chef festival held at Sani Resort on the Kassandra peninsula of Halkidiki, running from 10 July to 7 August 2026, with residencies by Disfrutar, Pierre Gagnaire, Pi…
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Concert
Sani Festival
Sani Hill, Sani Resort, Halkidiki
Sani Resort's annual open-air festival on the Kassandra peninsula — Greece's longest-running privately organised music festival, founded in 1992 — runs from 11 July to 15 August 2026, with Robert Pla…
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Festival
The Aegean Film Festival
Patmos
The Aegean Film Festival is an annual open-air film festival held on Patmos. The 15th edition runs from 16 to 24 July 2026, across nine evenings, and has been held on the island every July since 2010.
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Gastronomy
Chefs on the Beach
W Costa Navarino, Messinia
Chefs on the Beach is W Costa Navarino's annual open-fire guest-chef dining series on the Messenian shore; the 2026 edition, its third, sets six one-night dinners between 17 July and 3 September, wit…
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Festival
The Kalamata International Dance Festival
Kalamata Dance Megaron, Kalamata
The 32nd Kalamata International Dance Festival runs 17 to 26 July 2026 under artistic director Tzeni Argyriou — opening with Yoann Bourgeois and, for the first time, carrying a performance to the arc…
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Festival
The Kea Folktales Festival
Ioulida, Kea
The Kea Folktales Festival, founded in 2003 by George Evgenikos, is among the longest-running storytelling festivals in Europe. Its 24th edition runs from 17 to 26 July 2026 across the island, drawin…
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Gala
The Young Patrons Summer Weekend
Kythnos
The Museum of Cycladic Art takes its Young Patrons circle to Kythnos from 17 to 19 July 2026 for the twelfth edition of the annual members-only summer weekend, with a panigyri at Panagia Flabouriani,…
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Regatta
The International Aegean Sailing Rally
Faliro Bay, Syros and Leros
The International Aegean Sailing Rally is the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club's oldest offshore race, held each summer since 1964. The 63rd edition runs from 18 to 27 July 2026, departing Faliro Bay wi…
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Festival
The Porto Heli International Festival
Manessis Estate, Porto Heli
The Porto Heli International Festival of Art and Culture is an annual festival of classical music and the arts held at the Manessis Estate in Porto Heli, Greece, from 25 July to 9 August 2026, under …
August 2026
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Concert
Samos Young Artists Festival
Ancient Theatre of Pythagorion, Samos
The Samos Young Artists Festival is the Schwarz Foundation's annual music festival at the Ancient Theatre of Pythagorion — an open-air stage above the Aegean on the southern shore of Samos. The 16th …
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Concert
Molyvos International Music Festival
Molyvos, Lesvos
The Molyvos International Music Festival is an annual chamber-music festival in Molyvos, Lesvos; the twelfth edition runs from 12 to 19 August 2026 under the theme Eudaimonia, with Antje Weithaas, An…
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Festival
The Dormition at Ekatontapyliani
Panagia Ekatontapyliani, Parikia, Paros
The feast of the Dormition at Panagia Ekatontapyliani is held on 14 and 15 August at the 4th-century church of Parikia, Paros, with Vespers and the procession of the epitaphios on the eve, and a hier…
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Festival
The Pilgrimage of Panagia Soumela at Mount Vermio
Kastania, Mount Vermio
The Pilgrimage of Panagia Soumela is the annual Dormition panegyris of Pontic Hellenism, held on 14 and 15 August at the shrine above Kastania on Mount Vermio, where the icon carried from the Soumela…
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Festival
The Dormition at Tinos
Church of Panagia Evangelistria, Tinos
The Dormition at Tinos is Greece's principal Marian pilgrimage, held on 15 August at the Church of Panagia Evangelistria, where the icon of the Annunciation found in 1823 is carried in procession to …
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Regatta
The Aegean Regatta
Limnia, Volissos, Chios
The Aegean Regatta is an annual offshore sailing race through the islands of the eastern Aegean, organised by the Greek state and held without interruption since 2001. The 25th edition sails from 22 …
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Concert
The Patmos Chamber Music Festival
Chora and Skala, Patmos
The Patmos Chamber Music Festival is an annual chamber music festival on the island of Patmos, co-founded by pianist Roberto Prosseda in 2022; the fifth edition runs from 24 to 30 August 2026, with c…
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Concert
The Saronic Chamber Music Festival
Hydra, Poros, Galatas & Methana
The Saronic Chamber Music Festival is an annual chamber music festival held across four harbours of the Saronic Gulf, with the Leondari Ensemble performing six concerts from 25 to 30 August 2026 at v…
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Festival
The August Full Moon at the Archaeological Sites
Archaeological sites and museums across Greece
The August Full Moon is the Hellenic Ministry of Culture's annual nocturnal opening of archaeological sites and museums across Greece, held on the night of the full moon — 28 August in 2026. Sites ad…
September 2026
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Concert
Syros International Music Festival
Apollon Theatre, Ermoupolis, Syros
Meet the Violins' annual chamber-music festival at the Apollon Theatre in Ermoupolis, Syros; the 2026 edition is the fourth under artistic director Jonas Vitaud, running 1 to 5 September.
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Festival
The Armata of Spetses
Old Harbour, Spetses
The Armata of Spetses is an annual commemoration of the naval battle of 8 September 1822, organised by the Municipality of Spetses. The 2026 culmination takes place on Saturday 12 September at the Ol…
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Festival
The Ifestia of Santorini
The caldera, Santorini
The Ifestia of Santorini is an annual festival held in September on the caldera, in which a pyrotechnic re-enactment of the volcanic eruption is launched from Nea Kameni; the 2026 edition is expected…
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Auction
The Vergos Fall Sale
Vergos Auctions, Athens
Vergos Auctions' autumn sale of Modern Greek Art is expected in late September 2026 — an online-live auction from Athens whose recent editions set Tsarouchis and Fassianos beside Akrithakis, Takis an…
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Sport
The Spartathlon
Athens to Sparta
The Spartathlon is the International Spartathlon Association's annual ultramarathon from Athens to Sparta, covering 246 kilometres over seventy-five checkpoints. The 44th edition runs on 26 to 27 Sep…
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Conference
Athens Democracy Forum
Athens Conservatoire, Athens
The Athens Democracy Forum is the Democracy & Culture Foundation's annual conference on democracy, held in Athens in association with The New York Times. The 2026 edition runs 29 September to 1 Octob…
October 2026
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Regatta
The 5.5 Metre World Championship and Scandinavian Gold Cup
Yacht Club of Greece, Lavrion
The 5.5 Metre World Championship and Scandinavian Gold Cup is a keelboat regatta hosted by the Yacht Club of Greece at Lavrion from 1 to 9 October 2026, the Gold Cup sailed 1 to 4 October and the Wor…
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Exhibition
The Acropolis Museum Autumn Exhibition
Acropolis Museum, Athens
The Acropolis Museum Autumn Exhibition is the museum's seasonal loan show in Athens. The 2026 edition brings more than one hundred pre-Christian artefacts from the History Museum of Armenia — the fir…
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Festival
The Athens International Film Festival
Megaron — The Athens Concert Hall and city cinemas, Athens
The Athens International Film Festival is the Athens Film Society's annual film festival, running each October under the name Opening Nights since 1995. The 32nd edition is scheduled for early Octobe…
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Festival
The Dimitria Festival
Thessaloniki
The Municipality of Thessaloniki's annual October festival, staged each year in the name of the city's patron saint, runs in its 61st edition from 1 to 24 October 2026, dates confirmed in February al…
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Sport
The Spetses Mini Marathon
Spetses
The Spetses Mini Marathon is Communication Lab's annual multi-sport event on Spetses, combining open-water swims across the Kosta strait with foot races of up to 25 kilometres around the car-free isl…
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Concert
The Megaron Artistic Season
Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Athens
The Megaron Artistic Season is the annual programme of Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall, running from mid-October 2026 through spring 2027 across four halls on Vasilissis Sofias Avenue; the 2026–27 …
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Trade Show
The Olympic Yacht Show
Olympic Marine, Lavrio
The Olympic Yacht Show is an annual in-water yacht show held at Olympic Marine in Lavrio, on the 77th kilometre of the Athens–Sounion road. The sixth edition runs from 15 to 18 October 2026; the fift…
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Sport
Santorini Experience
Oia and Fira, Santorini
The ninth Santorini Experience is scheduled for 16 to 18 October 2026 — the caldera swim from the volcanic islet to the Old Port of Fira on the Friday, three Oia trail routes on the Saturday — co-org…
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Festival
The Feast of Saint Demetrios
Basilica of Saint Demetrios, Thessaloniki
On 26 October Thessaloniki keeps the feast of its patron at the five-aisled basilica that bears his name — a date the city doubles with the anniversary of its 1912 liberation.
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Performance
Greek National Opera: L'Orfeo
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
The 2026/27 season opens at the Stavros Niarchos Hall on 30 October 2026 with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, staged by William Kentridge in a co-production with Glyndebourne and the Metropolitan Opera.
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Performance
The Greek National Opera 2026/27 Season
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
The Greek National Opera's 2026/27 season opens at the Stavros Niarchos Hall on 30 October 2026 and runs into July 2027 — Kentridge's L'Orfeo to open, Robert Wilson's Otello in spring, Madama Butterf…
November 2026
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Gastronomy
International Xinomavro Day
Naoussa, Amyndeon, Goumenissa and Rapsani
International Xinomavro Day is an annual occasion held on 1 November, established in 2019 by the Association of Winemakers "Wines of North Greece" to mark the close of the northern harvest and the st…
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Auction
The Vergos Rare Books Sale
Vergos Auctions, Athens
Vergos Auctions' autumn sale of rare books, manuscripts, documents and engravings is expected in early November 2026 — the two-evening Athens fixture whose 2025 edition brought 500 lots to the Zappei…
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Festival
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Olympion, Aristotelous Square, Thessaloniki
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece's oldest international film festival, runs from 5 to 15 November 2026 at the Olympion on Aristotelous Square and the port warehouses of Thessaloni…
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Sport
Athens Marathon. The Authentic
Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium, Athens
Athens Marathon. The Authentic is the Hellenic Athletics Federation's annual marathon raced on the original 42.195-kilometre course from Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium, finishing in the marble s…
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Festival
The Feast of the Archangel Michael at Panormitis
Monastery of the Archangel Michael Panormitis, Symi
The Feast of the Archangel Michael at Panormitis is an annual religious festival held at the Monastery of the Archangel Michael on Symi on 8 November, the Synaxis of the Archangels in the Orthodox ca…
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Festival
The Feast of Saint Minas
Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Minas, Heraklion
On 11 November Heraklion keeps the feast of Saint Minas, its patron, at the metropolitan cathedral that bears his name — one of the largest churches in Greece, consecrated in 1895. The city treats th…
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Exhibition
Art Athina
Onassis Ready, Athens
Art Athina is an annual contemporary art fair held in Athens, founded in 1993 by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association. The 2026 edition runs from 12 to 16 November at Onassis Ready, the production …
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Performance
The Onassis Stegi Winter Cycle
Onassis Stegi, Athens
The Onassis Stegi Winter Cycle is the annual theatre and dance programme at the Onassis Stegi in Athens; the 2026–27 cycle runs from 12 November 2026 to late March 2027, opening with Robert Icke's Oe…
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Festival
The SNFCC Christmas World
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, Kallithea
The SNFCC Christmas World is an annual winter festival held at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre in Kallithea, running from late November 2026 through 7 January 2027, with an ice rink o…
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Festival
The Feast of Saint Andrew at Patras
Holy Church of Saint Andrew, Patras
On 30 November Patras keeps the feast of its patron at the largest church in Greece — festal liturgy, then the litany of the relics and the great silver icon through the central streets.
December 2026
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Gala
The Lloyd's List Greek Shipping Awards
Athens
Lloyd's List's annual Greek Shipping Awards is a black-tie dinner held in Athens each December since 2004; the twenty-third edition is expected in early December 2026.
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Auction
The Vergos Winter Auction
Zappeion Megaron, Athens
Vergos Auctions' winter sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greek painting and sculpture is held at the Zappeion Megaron in early December — a three-day public exhibition followed by the evenin…
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Exhibition
The Goulandris Foundation Winter Exhibition
Museum of the B&E Goulandris Foundation, Athens
The Goulandris Foundation Winter Exhibition is the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation's annual temporary loan exhibition in Pangrati, Athens, expected to open in early December 2026 and run into spr…
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Performance
Greek National Opera: The Queen of Spades
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
The Queen of Spades is a 2026 production of Tchaikovsky's opera by the Greek National Opera, staged by Stephen Langridge and conducted by Dmitri Jurowski at the Stavros Niarchos Hall from 6 December …
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Festival
The Feast of Saint Nicholas at Piraeus
Piraeus
Saint Nicholas, patron of seafarers and of the Hellenic Navy, is kept on 6 December; the Navy marks the feast with a doxology at the Hellenic Naval Academy in Piraeus, warships opened to the public, …
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Festival
The Feast of Saint Spyridon at Corfu
Church of Saint Spyridon, Corfu
Corfu keeps the feast of its patron Saint Spyridon on 12 December, when the saint's relic is taken from its Vienna-made silver reliquary and set upright at the door of his shrine for three days of ro…
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Exhibition
The Museum of Cycladic Art Winter Exhibition
Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
The Museum of Cycladic Art opens its winter exhibition in mid-December 2026, with the Stathatos Mansion and the Neofytou Douka wing holding exhibitions into the spring of 2027, following the pattern …
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Performance
Greek National Opera Ballet: Giselle
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
Giselle is a production of the Romantic ballet by the Greek National Opera Ballet, staged at the Stavros Niarchos Hall from 20 December 2026 to 10 January 2027 across eleven performances.
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Concert
The Athens State Orchestra Christmas Gala
Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Athens
The Athens State Orchestra Christmas Gala is an annual orchestral gala held in late December at the Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Athens. The 2026 edition is scheduled for late December at the Christo…
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Gala Three occasions
New Year's Eve in Athens
Athens & the Athens Riviera
Three Athens houses hold New Year's Eve galas on 31 December 2026: One&Only Aesthesis and the Four Seasons Astir Palace on the Athens Riviera, and the Hotel Grande Bretagne above Syntagma Square.
January 2027
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Concert
The Camerata New Year Concert
Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Athens
The Camerata New Year Concert is the annual programme of Strauss-family waltzes and polkas with which the Camerata – Friends of Music Orchestra opens the year at Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall; th…
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Festival
Vasilopita
Greece
The vasilopita is the Greek New Year's bread or cake baked with a coin — the flouri — inside, divided in sequence through the household on 1 January in a tradition continuous from fourth-century Capp…
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Festival
Theophania at Piraeus
Piraeus
Theophania — the Greek Orthodox feast of the Baptism, marking the manifestation of the Trinity — is kept on 6 January; at Piraeus the liturgy is sung at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity and the cros…
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Festival
Theophania at Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Theophania, the Greek Orthodox feast of the Baptism, is kept on 6 January; at Thessaloniki the Divine Liturgy is sung at the Metropolitan Church of Saint Gregory Palamas and a procession carries the …
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Gastronomy
The Sigalas Assyrtiko Release
Oia, Santorini
Domaine Sigalas at Oia — forty-five hectares on Santorini's northwestern tip, under Kir-Yianni stewardship since November 2025 — releases the first allocations of the new Assyrtiko in mid-January, fr…
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Gala
The European Film Awards
Greek National Opera, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens
The 39th European Film Awards are presented at the Greek National Opera within the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens on 16 January 2027, the first time the ceremony is held in Sou…
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Festival
The Patras Carnival
Patras
The Patras Carnival is an annual carnival held in Patras, Greece, the largest in the country. The 2027 carnival period opens on 17 January with the ceremonial welcome of the Carnival King and runs to…
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Exhibition
The Benaki Museum Winter Exhibition
Benaki Museum, Athens
The Benaki Museum Winter Exhibition is an annual exhibition cycle held in Athens, Greece, opening in the second half of January 2027 across the Vasilissis Sofias main building and the Pireos 138 anne…
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Concert
Piano Days
Megaron Athens Concert Hall
Piano Days is an annual two-day piano festival at Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, held on the last weekend of January; the 2027 edition is expected in late January 2027, after a 2026 edition on 24 …
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Concert
Tosca
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
The Greek National Opera stages Puccini's Tosca for eight performances at the Stavros Niarchos Hall from 24 January to 11 February 2027, in Nikos S. Petropoulos's noir staging conducted by Pier Giorg…
February 2027
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Festival
Onassis Dance Days
Onassis Stegi, Athens
Onassis Dance Days is an annual contemporary-dance festival held at the Onassis Stegi in Athens; the 2027 edition is expected in early February, with the full lineup to be announced in autumn 2026.
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Concert
STEGI.RADIO Takeover
Onassis Stegi, Athens
The STEGI.RADIO Takeover is the annual electronic music festival of the Onassis Foundation's online radio station, held at the Onassis Stegi in Athens; the fourth edition is expected in February 2027…
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Conference
The Capital Link Greek Shipping Forum
Athenaeum InterContinental, Athens
The Capital Link Greek Shipping Forum is Capital Link's annual maritime conference in Athens, organised in partnership with DNV and in cooperation with the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. The sev…
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Festival
The Feast of Panagia Ypapanti
Metropolitan Cathedral of Ypapanti, Kalamata
The Feast of Panagia Ypapanti is the patronal feast of Kalamata, held on 2 February with a hierarchal liturgy and a procession of the city's half-burnt icon through the streets of the old town.
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Performance
A Streetcar Named Desire
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
A Streetcar Named Desire is a ballet production by the Greek National Opera Ballet, choreographed by Valentina Turcu, staged at the Stavros Niarchos Hall across five evenings from 12 February to 7 Ma…
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Festival Five occasions
The Greek Carnival
Across Greece
The Greek Carnival (Apokries) is the pre-Lenten season of the Triodion, which in 2027 runs from 21 February to Clean Monday on 15 March. This roundup covers five of the principal town carnivals: Patr…
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Festival
The Triodion
Greece
The Triodion opens on Sunday 21 February 2027 — the pre-Lenten weeks the Greek year gives to the carnival cycle, running to Cheesefare Sunday on 14 March before Great Lent begins on Clean Monday; Pas…
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Festival
The First Apokries Weekend
Athens
The First Apokries Weekend in Athens falls on 27 and 28 February 2027, opening the carnival season of the Greek Orthodox Triodion, which runs to Clean Monday on 15 March.
March 2027
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Gastronomy
Merci Chef!
Athens
Merci Chef! is the French Embassy in Greece's annual week of French gastronomy, co-organised with the Institut Français de Grèce; the fourth edition is scheduled for early March 2027, continuing the …
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Gala
The Chrysoi Skoufoi Awards
Athens
The Chrysoi Skoufoi (Golden Toques) are Athinorama's annual awards for the best restaurants in Greece; the 34th ceremony, a gala dinner in Athens, is expected in early March 2027.
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Festival
The Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
Olympion, Aristotelous Square, Thessaloniki
The 29th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival is scheduled for early March 2027 at the Olympion on Aristotelous Square and the port warehouses of Thessaloniki, organised by the Thessalonik…
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Performance
Greek National Opera: The Rake's Progress
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
The Rake's Progress is a 2027 production of Stravinsky's opera by the Greek National Opera, directed by Alexandros Efklidis and conducted by Jacques Lacombe, staged at the Stavros Niarchos Hall acros…
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Trade Show
Oenorama
Athens
Oenorama is an annual wine exhibition held in Athens by Vinetum Wine Communication; the 33rd edition is scheduled for mid-March 2027, with the venue and exact dates to be confirmed.
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Festival
Clean Monday at Stavros Niarchos Park
Stavros Niarchos Park, Kallithea
On Clean Monday, 15 March 2027, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre holds the Koulouma on the Great Lawn — kite workshops, traditional music and dance, and a feast that sees off the carni…
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Festival
Greek Independence Day Grand Military Parade
Syntagma Square, Athens
The Greek Independence Day Grand Military Parade is an annual state ceremony held in Athens on 25 March, marking the 1821 revolution. The 2027 parade passes Syntagma Square and the Hellenic Parliamen…
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Festival
The Annunciation at Panagia Evangelistria, Tinos
Church of Panagia Evangelistria, Tinos
On 25 March the Annunciation — the icon's titular feast — is kept at Tinos on the same day the nation marks its War of Independence, with the 1823 image carried in procession down to the harbour.
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Regatta
The Greek Revolution Regatta
Faliro to Hydra
The 54th Greek Revolution Regatta is expected in late March 2027 — HORC's annual offshore race from Faliro to Hydra and back, timed to the 25 March national day.
April 2027
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Concert
Borderline Festival
Onassis Ready, Agios Ioannis Rentis, Athens
The Borderline Festival is the Onassis Foundation's annual electronic music festival, the Onassis Stegi's longest-running, held at Onassis Ready, Agios Ioannis Rentis, Athens. The 16th edition is sch…
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Concert
Megaron Spring Festival
Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, Athens
The Megaron Spring Festival is an annual week of recitals and dance at the Athens Concert Hall; the 2027 edition is scheduled for early April 2027, with the programme to be published towards the end …
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Gastronomy
The Private Kitchen
Costa Navarino, Messenia
The Private Kitchen is the chef's-table venue at Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino, which has staged a season of dinners by visiting Michelin-starred chefs in each of the past two years; the series i…
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Exhibition
The Athens Biennale
Former Public Tobacco Factory, Athens
The 8th Athens Biennale, titled Stasis/Ekstasis, runs from 2 April to 27 June 2027 at the former Public Tobacco Factory in Athens, the country's largest international contemporary-art event.
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Performance
Otello
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
The Greek National Opera presents eight performances of Robert Wilson's staging of Verdi's Otello at the Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens, between 8 April and 9 May 2027, with Hovhannes Ayvazyan …
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Conference
Delphi Economic Forum
European Cultural Centre of Delphi
An annual international conference held below the ancient sanctuary of Apollo on Mount Parnassus, the Delphi Economic Forum was founded by Symeon Tsomokos in 2016 and convened under the patronage of …
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Auction
The Vergos Spring Rare Books Sale
Parnassos Literary Society, Athens
Vergos Auctions' spring sale of rare books, manuscripts, documents and engravings is expected in late April 2027 — the two-evening Athens fixture whose 2026 edition brought a two-part catalogue to th…
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Festival Six occasions
Holy Week Across the Islands
The Greek islands
Holy Week Across the Islands is a roundup of six distinct island observances of Orthodox Holy Week 2027, with Great Friday on 30 April and Pascha on 2 May: the Epitaphios into the sea at Kamini on Hy…
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Festival
Holy Week and Pascha
Greece
Holy Week in 2027 runs from Monday 26 April to Holy Saturday on 1 May, with Pascha falling on Sunday 2 May — weeks after the Western Easter, as calculated by the Julian calendar.
May 2027
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Concert
Missa solemnis
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
The Greek National Opera presents Beethoven's Missa solemnis for the first time in its history in May and June 2027 at the Stavros Niarchos Hall, a mixed performance uniting the company's Orchestra, …
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Auction
The Bonhams Greek Sale
Bonhams Athens, Amalias 36
The Bonhams Greek Sale is a twice-yearly auction of Greek art, the only dedicated Greek-art sale held by an international auction house. The spring 2027 Athens viewing is scheduled at Bonhams' rooms …
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Regatta
The Athens Trophy
Saronic Gulf
The Athens Trophy is an annual offshore sailing regatta in the Saronic Gulf, sailed across two May weekends and co-organised by six Attic sailing clubs. The 17th edition is scheduled for early to mid…
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Trade Show
The Mediterranean Yacht Show
Port of Nafplio, Argolida
The Mediterranean Yacht Show — the Greek Yachting Association's annual crewed-charter trade show at the Port of Nafplio — runs from 8 to 12 May 2027, opening the Greek charter season for the trade.
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Conference
The Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum
Greece
The Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum is a biennial conference for Mediterranean cruise and yachting leadership, held in Greece in odd years. The ninth edition is expected in mid-May 2027, provisionally se…
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Trade Show
East Med Multihull & Yacht Charter Show
Poros Port, Poros
The East Med Multihull & Yacht Charter Show (EMMYS) is an annual trade-only crewed-charter yacht show held at Poros. The 23rd edition runs 13–16 May 2027; the 21st ran 29 April to 2 May 2025 and the …
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Sport
Spetsathlon
Spetses
Spetsathlon — Greece's largest triathlon weekend — returns to car-free Spetses in mid-May 2027, with open-water swims off Agios Mamas, a circuit of the island by bicycle and the Sunday triathlons fro…
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Gala
The ESG Shipping Awards International
Athens
The ESG Shipping Awards International is Maritime Impact L.P.'s annual maritime awards gala in Athens; the fifth edition is expected in mid-May 2027, following the fourth on 15 May 2026 at Asteria Gl…
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Sport
The Historic Acropolis Rally
Thermopylae to the Acropolis, Athens
The Historic Acropolis Rally is an annual historic motorsport event organised by the Hellenic Motor Sports Federation (OMAE); the 2027 edition is expected in late May, running from the Leonidas monum…
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Auction
The Vergos Spring Sale of Modern Greek Art
Vergos Auctions, Athens
Vergos Auctions' spring sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greek painting and sculpture is expected in late May 2027 — the late-May fixture that in 2026 brought 162 works, from Volanakis and T…
June 2027
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Regatta
The Cyclades Cup
Antiparos
The Cyclades Cup is an annual invitational superyacht regatta held off Antiparos. The fourth edition is scheduled for 9 to 12 June 2027 in the channel between Antiparos and Paros, organised with the …
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Exhibition
The Museum of Contemporary Art Andros Summer Exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros
The Museum of Contemporary Art Andros Summer Exhibition is the annual international loan show the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation mounts in Chora, Andros; the 2027 edition, its subject not yet an…
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Regatta
The Spetses Classic Yacht Regatta
Spetses
The Spetses Classic Yacht Regatta is the Yacht Club of Greece's annual regatta for classic yachts, traditional caiques and lateen-rigged boats, raced off Spetses each June since 2011; the 2027 editio…
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Sport
EKO Acropolis Rally Greece
Central Greece and the Peloponnese
The EKO Acropolis Rally Greece is an annual round of the FIA World Rally Championship, known in the sport as the Rally of Gods. The seventy-first edition is expected in late June 2027, under a two-ye…
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Festival
SNF Nostos
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Kallithea
SNF Nostos is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation's free summer festival of concerts, talks and sport at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Kallithea, expected to return in late June 2027…
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Sport
The Aegean Messinia Pro-Am
Costa Navarino, Messinia
The Aegean Messinia Pro-Am is Costa Navarino's annual pro-am golf tournament, played on the Ionian coast of Messinia. The twenty-first edition is expected at the resort in late June 2027, with dates …
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Festival
The Miaoulia of Hydra
Hydra Harbour, Hydra
The Municipality of Hydra's annual commemoration of Andreas Miaoulis, the admiral who commanded the revolutionary fleet through the Greek War of Independence, is expected in late June 2027, 192 years…
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