Past Occasions
January 2025
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Concert
The Camerata New Year Concert
Christos Lambrakis Hall, Megaron Athens Concert Hall
The Camerata New Year Concert is an annual event at Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall in which the Camerata – Friends of Music Orchestra performs a programme of Viennese waltzes and polkas; the 2025 …
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Festival
Theophania at Piraeus
Church of Saint Spyridon, Piraeus
Theophania at Piraeus is the principal Greek Blessing of the Waters ceremony, held on 6 January at the Church of Saint Spyridon, Piraeus, where the cross is cast into the harbour and swimmers dive to…
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Concert
The Megaron Liederabend
Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall, Megaron Athens Concert Hall
The Megaron Liederabend of 14 January 2025 was a recital by mezzo-soprano Nefeli Kotseli and pianist Dimitris Yakas in the Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall, presenting Schumann song cycles, a Haydn cantata,…
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Concert
Dare to Dance / Try Not to Dance
Alternative Stage, Greek National Opera, SNFCC
Dare to Dance / Try Not to Dance is a 2025 concert on the Greek National Opera Alternative Stage, led by Mata Katsouli with a sixteen-member string ensemble on 18 January 2025.
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Concert
You Don't Know My Place / The Music of Julius Eastman
Alternative Stage, Greek National Opera, SNFCC
You Don't Know My Place / The Music of Julius Eastman is a 2025 concert on the Greek National Opera Alternative Stage, in which the piano duo P42 performed two works by Julius Eastman on 19 January 2…
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Performance
The Mozart–Da Ponte Masterclass
Megaron Athens Concert Hall
The Mozart–Da Ponte Masterclass at the Megaron ran from 20 to 24 January 2025, with baritone Dimitris Tiliakos teaching sixteen young singers the three Da Ponte operas; the sessions concluded on 29 J…
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Concert
STEGI.RADIO Takeover
Onassis Stegi, Athens
The STEGI.RADIO Takeover is an annual two-night electronic music event at the Onassis Stegi in Athens; the 2025 edition ran 24 and 25 January across four stages with more than thirty artists.
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Concert
Piano Days
Megaron Athens Concert Hall
Piano Days is an annual two-day event at Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall dedicated to the piano; the 2025 edition ran on 25 and 26 January, with recitals, interactive events, and emerging soloists …
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Concert
La forza del destino
Stavros Niarchos Hall, Greek National Opera, SNFCC
La forza del destino is a 2025 Greek National Opera production of Verdi's opera, opening 26 January at the Stavros Niarchos Hall — the company's first staging of the work since 1998.
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Performance
I Want to See the Pope!
Alternative Stage, Greek National Opera, SNFCC
I Want to See the Pope! is a production of Theophrastos Sakellaridis's 1920 Greek operetta, staged by the Greek National Opera on its Alternative Stage across nine performances from 31 January to 16 …
February 2025
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Performance
MAMI
Onassis Stegi, Athens
Mario Banushi premiered MAMI on the Main Stage of the Onassis Stegi on 6 February 2025 — an Onassis commission carried by eight European co-producers.
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Gala
Capital Link Greek Shipping Forum
Athenaeum Intercontinental, Athens
The Capital Link Greek Shipping Forum is Capital Link's annual maritime conference in Athens, bringing together the listed owners, financiers, and analysts of Greek shipping. The fifteenth edition wa…
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Concert
Jonas Kaufmann at the Megaron
Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall
The tenor Jonas Kaufmann sang a gala of arias with the Athens State Orchestra in the Christos Lambrakis Hall on 9 February 2025.
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Concert
My Bloody Valentine
Greek National Opera Alternative Stage, SNFCC, Athens
My Bloody Valentine is a 2025 recital on the Greek National Opera Alternative Stage, in which the soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou performed Romantic art song, jazz settings and traditional song on 12 Fe…
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Exhibition
Africa amongst us
Benaki Museum, Pireos 138, Athens
Africa amongst us is a 2025 participatory exhibition held at the Benaki Museum's Pireos 138 building in Athens, drawing on the John Phillipson Collection and developed with the ANASA Cultural Center …
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Performance
NEKYIA
Thessaloniki Concert Hall
NEKYIA is a performance by Giannis Aggelakas and Christos Papadopoulos based on the eleventh book of Homer's Odyssey; an Onassis Stegi production, it was staged at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall for f…
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Performance
Tchaikovsky
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
Tchaikovsky is a 2025 ballet production by the Greek National Opera Ballet, choreographed by Cayetano Soto and staged at the Stavros Niarchos Hall across five performances from 14 to 23 February 2025.
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Concert
Canto General
Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall
Canto General was performed at the Megaron on 16 and 17 February 2025, in the Alexandra Trianti Hall, as the opening concert of the centenary year of Mikis Theodorakis (born 1925).
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Performance
Mythos
Greek National Opera Alternative Stage, SNFCC, Athens
Mythos is a puppet-theatre work by Yiorgos Karakantzas, given its premiere at the Greek National Opera Alternative Stage on 21, 22 and 23 February 2025 in co-production with Anima Théâtre.
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Exhibition
Shaped by Earth
Kalfayan Galleries, Kolonaki, Athens
Kalfayan Galleries opened the group exhibition Shaped by Earth in Kolonaki on 27 February 2025, a survey of clay as an artistic medium.
March 2025
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Festival
Patras Carnival
Patras, Achaea
The grand parade of the Patras Carnival filled the city on Sunday 2 March 2025 — the climax of Greece's largest carnival, on the eve of Clean Monday.
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Festival
Clean Monday at the Stavros Niarchos Park
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, Athens
On Clean Monday, 3 March 2025, the Stavros Niarchos Park kept the Koulouma — kites over the Great Lawn and a panorama of Greek song and dance curated by Lambros Liavas.
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Festival
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
Thessaloniki
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival ran from 6 to 16 March 2025 — eleven days across the port city's cinemas and converted waterfront warehouses, screening 261 documentaries.
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Concert
Journey to the Centre of Music
Megaron — The Athens Concert Hall
Journey to the Centre of Music is an interactive concert cycle of the Athens State Orchestra; on 7 and 8 March 2025 it presented a programme of marches and processional music under Lukas Karytinos in…
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Gastronomy
Oenorama
Zappeion Megaron, Athens
Oenorama is Vinetum Wine Communication's annual wine exhibition held each March in Athens; the 31st edition ran from 7 to 10 March 2025 at the Zappeion Megaron, with more than 250 producers and over …
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Performance
The Dead Man and the Resurrection
Alternative Stage, Greek National Opera, Athens
The Dead Man and the Resurrection is a contemporary opera by Nicolas Tzortzis, after the novel by Nikos Gavriil Pentzikis, premiered by the Greek National Opera on its Alternative Stage at the SNFCC …
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Performance
Flora mirabilis
Stavros Niarchos Hall, Greek National Opera, Athens
Flora mirabilis is a production of Spyridon Samaras's 1886 opera by the Greek National Opera, staged at the Stavros Niarchos Hall across four performances in March 2025.
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Concert
Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace
Megaron — The Athens Concert Hall
On 22 March 2025 the violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Enrico Pace gave a Beethoven sonata recital at the Megaron — a homecoming for one of the era's foremost violinists.
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Festival
Greek Independence Day Military Parade
Syntagma Square, Athens
On 25 March 2025 the armed forces paraded before the Hellenic Parliament at Syntagma, marking the 204th anniversary of the 1821 revolution.
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Festival
The Annunciation at Tinos
Panagia Evangelistria, Tinos
The Annunciation at Tinos is the spring pilgrimage feast at the shrine of Panagia Evangelistria, held on 25 March — the same day Greece marks the anniversary of its War of Independence.
April 2025
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Performance
Onassis Dance Days
Onassis Stegi, Athens
Onassis Dance Days is an annual contemporary-dance festival held at the Onassis Stegi in Athens; the 12th edition ran from 3 to 6 April 2025, with Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa's Planet [wanderer] as i…
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Performance
Madre Salonico
GNO Alternative Stage, SNFCC, Athens
Madre Salonico is a music-theatre premiere by the Greek National Opera, staged on its Alternative Stage across six performances from 4 to 11 April 2025, built from Sephardic songs in Ladino.
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Concert
Lucia di Lammermoor
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
Lucia di Lammermoor is a production of Donizetti's opera by the Greek National Opera, staged at the Stavros Niarchos Hall from 6 April to 11 May 2025 in Katie Mitchell's Royal Opera House production …
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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 2025 edition ran from 8 to 14 April, opening with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and closing with the…
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Gala
Delphi Economic Forum
Delphi, Phocis
Held at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi below the ancient sanctuary of Apollo, the Delphi Economic Forum is an annual international conference organised by a non-profit Athens body under the p…
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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 14th edition ran on…
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Festival
The Niptiras Ceremony on Patmos
Chora, Patmos
The Niptiras is the public Washing of the Feet ceremony performed by the abbot of the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian in the square of Chora on Patmos on Holy Thursday, 17 April 2025.
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Festival
The Epitaphios Procession at Kamini
Kamini, Hydra
The Epitaphios Procession at Kamini is Hydra's annual Good Friday sea-blessing for its seafarers, carried out by the fishing settlement of Kamini on 18 April 2025.
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Festival
The Botides of Corfu
Corfu Town
The Botides of Corfu is an annual Holy Saturday custom held in Corfu Town, in which residents throw large clay pots from their balconies onto the streets around the Liston and Spianada. The 2025 edit…
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Festival
Pascha
Pan-Hellenic
Orthodox Pascha is the central feast of the Greek Orthodox year, observed on Sunday 20 April 2025, marking the close of Holy Week with the midnight Anastasi service and the passing of the Holy Light.
May 2025
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Performance
The Fall of the House of Commons
Alternative Stage, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens
The Fall of the House of Commons is a contemporary opera by Orestis Papaioannou, revived by the Greek National Opera on its Alternative Stage across five performances in May 2025.
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Trade Show
The Mediterranean Yacht Show
Nafplio
The 10th Mediterranean Yacht Show gathered at Nafplio from 3 to 7 May 2025 — the Greek Yachting Association's annual crewed-charter trade show, described by the Association as the largest of its kind…
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Conference
The Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum
Creta Maris Resort, Hersonissos
The eighth Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum gathered the Mediterranean cruise and yachting leadership at the Creta Maris Resort near Heraklion on 6 and 7 May 2025.
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Performance
My Fierce Ignorant Step
Onassis Stegi, Athens
My Fierce Ignorant Step is a dance work by Christos Papadopoulos, his fourth for the Onassis Stegi, which premiered on the Main Stage from 7 to 18 May 2025, made for ten dancers with original music b…
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Performance
The Golden Age
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
The Golden Age is a 2025 ballet production by the Greek National Opera Ballet, conceived, choreographed and designed by Konstantinos Rigos, given five performances at the Stavros Niarchos Hall in May…
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Regatta
The Athens Trophy
Saronic Gulf
The Athens Trophy is an annual offshore sailing regatta in the Saronic Gulf, co-organised by six Attic sailing clubs led by the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club. The 15th edition was sailed across 10–11…
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Exhibition
Allspice | Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures
Acropolis Museum, Athens
Allspice | Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures is a temporary exhibition at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, running from 13 May to 31 October 2025. It is the first time the work of a living artist ha…
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Sport
Spetsathlon
Spetses
The 2025 Spetsathlon took the island across three days of open-water swimming, island cycling and triathlon — the largest triathlon race in Greece, held car-free on Spetses.
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Exhibition
Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives
EMST — National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives is a group exhibition curated by Katerina Gregos that opened at EMST in mid-May 2025 and ran through 7 January 2026, with more than sixty…
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Auction
The Greek Sale
Athens preview; sale at Avenue Hoche, Paris
The Greek Sale is Bonhams' annual auction of modern and contemporary Greek art. The 2025 sale, held on 21 May, comprised 171 lots led by Moralis and Engonopoulos, with the highlights shown in Athens …
June 2025
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Concert
Turandot
Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens
The Greek National Opera staged Puccini's Turandot at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on five evenings in early June 2025, within the Athens Epidaurus Festival's seventieth anniversary year.
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Exhibition
Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues
Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
The Museum of Cycladic Art set over forty paintings by Marlene Dumas against fourteen marble figurines from its collection, from 5 June through 2 November 2025.
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Exhibition
In a Bright Green Field
Benaki Museum / Pireos 138, Athens
In a Bright Green Field is a collaborative exhibition presented by the DESTE Foundation and the New Museum, in partnership with the Benaki Museum, gathering twenty-nine young Greek and Cypriot artist…
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Regatta
The Cyclades Cup
Antiparos
The Cyclades Cup is an annual invitational superyacht regatta held off Antiparos, organised by the Yacht Club of Greece. The second edition was held from 12 to 15 June 2025, with fifteen sailing yach…
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Festival
The Miaoulia of Hydra
Hydra Harbour, Hydra
The Municipality of Hydra's annual commemoration of Admiral Andreas Miaoulis — the Hydriot commander whose fireships decided the naval campaigns of the Greek War of Independence — ran in its 2025 edi…
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Exhibition
Takis 1∞
Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens and Andros
Takis 1∞ is a retrospective of the Greek sculptor Panayiotis Vassilakis (Takis, 1925–2019), held at the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation across its museums in Athens and Andros from 22 June to 2 N…
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Exhibition
Andra Ursuța: Apocalypse Now and Then
DESTE Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra
Andra Ursuța: Apocalypse Now and Then is a solo exhibition by the Romanian artist Andra Ursuța at the DESTE Foundation's Project Space on Hydra, running from 24 June to 31 October 2025. It is the art…
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Regatta
The Spetses Classic Yacht Regatta
Spetses
The fourteenth Spetses Classic Yacht Regatta raced the Argosaronic from 26 to 28 June 2025 — classic and traditional wooden yachts under the Poseidonion Grand Hotel.
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Performance
Antigone
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Argolid
Antigone is a 2025 staging of Sophocles' tragedy at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, directed by Ulrich Rasche. It was given on 27, 28 and 29 June 2025, opening the summer weekends at Epidaurus with…
July 2025
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Festival
Philippi Festival
Ancient Theatre of Philippi, Kavala
The Philippi Festival is an annual performing-arts festival held at the ancient theatre cut into the acropolis slope of Philippi — a city founded by Philip II in 356 BC. Its 68th edition ran from 2 J…
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Festival
The Olympus Festival
Ancient Theatre of Dion, Pieria
OR.FE.O.'s annual summer festival at the Ancient Theatre of Dion and other sites across Pieria ran in its 54th edition from 5 July to 7 September 2025, opening with the National Theatre of Greece's O…
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Regatta
AEGEAN 600
Cape Sounio
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 fifth edition started from Cape Sounion on 6 July 2025 with…
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Exhibition
The Thread That Holds Us Together
Bazeos Tower, Naxos
The Naxos Festival is the AEON Cultural Organization's annual summer arts festival at the Bazeos Tower — a seventeenth-century fortified tower on Naxos; the 25th edition ran from 8 July to 5 October …
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Concert
Sani Festival
Sani Hill, Halkidiki
Founded in 1992 and the longest-running privately organised festival in Greece, the Sani Festival held its 2025 edition from 12 July to 23 August on Sani Hill at Sani Resort in Halkidiki, presenting …
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Concert
Axion Esti
Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens
Axion Esti is a 2025 staging of Mikis Theodorakis's oratorio at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on 13 July, during the 70th Athens Epidaurus Festival and the centenary of Theodorakis's birth.
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Festival
Kalamata International Dance Festival
Kalamata Dance Megaron, Kalamata
The 31st Kalamata International Dance Festival ran from 18 to 27 July 2025 — the leading contemporary-dance encounter in Greece, closing its thirtieth-anniversary season.
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Concert
Daniil Trifonov Piano Recital
Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens
Daniil Trifonov gave a solo recital at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on 19 July 2025, in the seventieth year of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, with works by Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Barber.
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Concert
Utopia at Epidaurus
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Argolis
Teodor Currentzis conducted his orchestra Utopia at the ancient theatre of Epidaurus on 19 July 2025 in a programme of Mahler, presented by the Athens Epidaurus Festival in its seventieth year.
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Performance
The Two Oedipuses
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Argolis
The Two Oedipuses is a staging by Yannis Houvardas that combines Sophocles's Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus into a single continuous work, performed at the ancient theatre of Epidaurus on 25 and …
August 2025
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Performance
Europa's Pledge
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Argolid
Europa's Pledge is a 2025 world-premiere production by Wajdi Mouawad, staged at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus on 1 and 2 August as part of the Athens Epidaurus Festival's seventieth anniversary se…
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Gastronomy
The Vedema at Santo Wines
Santo Wines Winery, Pyrgos, Santorini
The 2025 Vedema was held on Sunday 3 August at the Santo Wines winery in Pyrgos, Santorini — a harvest celebration organised by the Union of Santorini Cooperatives, with traditional dances, a theatri…
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Concert
The 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 15th …
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Performance
Andromache
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Argolid
Andromache is a 2025 staging of Euripides' tragedy at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, directed by Maria Protopappa. It was given on 8 and 9 August within the Athens Epidaurus Festival's seventieth-…
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Festival
The August Full Moon
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. The 2025 edition, held on 9 August — the twenty-fifth consecutiv…
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Concert
The Molyvos International Music Festival
Molyvos, Lesvos
The Molyvos International Music Festival is an annual chamber-music festival held in the medieval village of Molyvos on Lesvos; the 11th edition ran from 12 to 19 August 2025 under the theme CHAOS, w…
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Festival
The Dormition of the Theotokos at Tinos
Church of Panagia Evangelistria, Tinos
The Dormition of the Theotokos at Tinos is the principal Greek Marian pilgrimage, held on 15 August at the Church of Panagia Evangelistria, where the icon of the Megalochari is carried in procession …
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Concert
Koufonisia Classical Music Festival
Ano Koufonisi & Keros
The Koufonisia Classical Music Festival is a chamber-music festival founded in 2016 by conductor-pianist Kornilios Michailidis on one of the smallest inhabited islands in the Cyclades; the tenth edit…
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Regatta
The Aegean Regatta
Myrina, Lemnos to Mytilene, Lesvos
The Aegean Regatta is an annual offshore sailing race through the islands of the north-eastern Aegean, organised by the Greek state and held without interruption since 2001. The 24th edition ran from…
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Concert
The Patmos Chamber Music Festival
Chora and Skala, Patmos
Roberto Prosseda's Patmos Chamber Music Festival — founded in 2022 and organised with the Municipality of Patmos — ran its fourth edition from 26 to 31 August 2025, with Steven Isserlis, Michel Dalbe…
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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 2025 edition ran from 27 August to 14 September at the Old Harb…
September 2025
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Concert
The Patmos Sacred Music Festival
Skala, Patmos
Patmos's annual festival of sacred and classical music — organised by the Municipality of Patmos with the Associazione Patmos Chamber Music Festival — ran its 23rd edition from 1 to 7 September 2025,…
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Gastronomy
The Great Days of Nemea
Nemea, Corinthia
The Great Days of Nemea (Megales Meres Nemeas) is an annual wine festival in Nemea, given to Agiorgitiko and the largest red-wine appellation in Greece. The twenty-first edition ran 5 to 7 September …
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Sport
The Greek Maritime Golf Event
Glyfada Golf Course "K. Karamanlis", Athens
The eleventh Greek Maritime Golf Event was played on Friday 5 September 2025 at the Glyfada Golf Course "K. Karamanlis", drawing representatives of more than eighty shipping companies in support of F…
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Concert
The Paxos Festival
Loggos, Paxos
The Friends of Paxos's annual music festival on the Ionian island of Paxos, founded in 1986. The 39th edition ran from late June 2025 through a September close at Loggos, where concerts are held in t…
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Exhibition
Rosalind Nashashibi — Windows
ARCH and Melas Martinos, Athens
Windows is a two-part exhibition by Rosalind Nashashibi, held at ARCH and the Melas Martinos house in Monastiraki, Athens, from 17 September to 25 October 2025.
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Exhibition
Art Athina
Zappeion, Athens
Art Athina is an annual contemporary art fair held in Athens, founded in 1993 by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association. The 2025 edition ran from 18 to 22 September at the Zappeion, with seventy-two…
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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 2025 edition ran on 20 a…
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Exhibition
Paolo Colombo — Music and Mosaics
Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
Music and Mosaics is Paolo Colombo's third solo exhibition at Bernier/Eliades Gallery in Athens, open from 25 September to 8 November 2025, comprising three sound installations, floor mosaics, large …
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Gala
The Athens Democracy Forum
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 13th edition ran 30 September to 3 Octobe…
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Auction
The Vergos Fall Sale
Vergos Auctions, Athens
Vergos Auctions' autumn sale of Modern Greek Art was held online live from Athens on 30 September 2025 — 140 works with starting prices from €200, led by Tsarouchis and Fassianos, with Niki de Saint …
October 2025
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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 31st edition ran from 1 to 12 October 2025…
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Festival
The Dimitria Festival
Thessaloniki
The Dimitria takes its name from the Byzantine fairs held in honour of Saint Demetrios, Thessaloniki's patron saint, and has been staged by the Municipality each October since its re-establishment in…
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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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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, Attica; the fifth edition ran from 9 to 12 October 2025, with around 140 yachts, more than 400 brands, and th…
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Sport
Santorini Experience
Oia and Fira, Santorini
The eighth Santorini Experience was held on 10–12 October 2025 — the caldera swim on the Friday, the three Oia trail routes on the Saturday — in the year the event marked a decade since its 2015 foun…
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Concert
Asmik Grigorian at the Megaron
Megaron, Athens Concert Hall
The season-opening recital at Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall on 17 October 2025 featured soprano Asmik Grigorian and pianist Lukas Geniušas in a programme of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, opening …
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Performance
La Gioconda
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
La Gioconda is a 2025 production of Ponchielli's opera by the Greek National Opera, opening its 2025/26 season on 19 October 2025 at the Stavros Niarchos Hall in a new international co-production dir…
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Festival
The Feast of Saint Demetrios
Church of Saint Demetrios, Thessaloniki
The Feast of Saint Demetrios is an annual Orthodox feast observed in Thessaloniki on 26 October. The 2025 feast coincided with the 113th anniversary of the city's liberation from Ottoman rule in 1912…
November 2025
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Gastronomy
International Xinomavro Day
Naoussa and Northern Greece
International Xinomavro Day is an annual celebration of the Xinomavro grape, held on 1 November by the Association of Winemakers Wines of North Greece — observed on 1 November 2025 across the winerie…
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Concert
The Mozart Concerti
Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall
The Camerata–Friends of Music Orchestra performed two Mozart concertante works on period instruments at the Megaron on 2 November 2025: the Concerto for Two Pianos K. 365 and the Concerto for Flute a…
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Auction
The Vergos Rare Books Sale
Zappeion Megaron, Athens
Vergos Auctions' autumn sale of rare books, manuscripts, documents and engravings was held at the Zappeion Megaron on 4–5 November 2025 — 500 lots across two evenings, from sixteenth-century printing…
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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 over the original 42.195-kilometre course from Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium. The 42nd edition, held …
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Gala
The International Opera Awards
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
The International Opera Awards were held in Athens for the first time on 13 November 2025, hosted by the Greek National Opera in the Stavros Niarchos Hall.
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Concert
The Stacey Kent Trio
Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall
The Stacey Kent Trio performed at the Megaron on 13 November 2025, in the fourth year of the Athens Concert Hall Organisation's Jazz @ Megaron series.
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Concert
Teodor Currentzis and the Utopia Orchestra
Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall
Teodor Currentzis and the Utopia Orchestra performed at the Megaron on 14 and 15 November 2025 — the ensemble's first appearance in Greece — in a programme of Wagner's Ring in Lorin Maazel's orchestr…
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Concert
Richard Bona and Alfredo Rodríguez
Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall
The Richard Bona and Alfredo Rodríguez concert at the Megaron on 18 November 2025 was the closing international date of Jazz @ Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall Organisation's autumn jazz series, in i…
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Exhibition
NEON City Project 2025
Old Quarry, Philopappos Hill, Athens
The NEON City Project 2025 is a public outdoor commission by the Greek artist Alexandros Tzannis, titled Athens Dies in Dreams at Sunrise, installed in the disused quarry on Philopappos Hill, Athens,…
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Festival
The Feast of Saint Andrew
Cathedral of Saint Andrew, Patras
The Feast of Saint Andrew is an annual Orthodox feast observed in Patras on 30 November. The 2025 feast was held at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew, with the Divine Liturgy and the procession of the sa…
December 2025
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Performance
Lovers' Chorus
Onassis Stegi, Athens
Tiago Rodrigues's Lovers' Chorus opened at the Onassis Stegi on 4 December 2025 — a two-voice chamber work with Nikos Karathanos and Marisha Triantafyllidou, running through mid-January 2026.
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Gala
The Lloyd's List Greek Shipping Awards
Athenaeum InterContinental, Athens
Lloyd's List's twenty-second Greek Shipping Awards were presented on Friday 5 December 2025 at the Athenaeum InterContinental in Athens, before more than a thousand guests; Maria Angelicoussis was na…
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Exhibition
From Monet to Warhol
Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens
From Monet to Warhol is a loan exhibition of eighty-three works by forty-five artists — Monet, Degas, Picasso, Warhol and others — drawn from a single three-generation European private collection, he…
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Festival
The Feast of Saint Nicholas at the Church of Saint Nicholas, Piraeus
Church of Saint Nicholas, Piraeus
Saint Nicholas, patron of seafarers, was kept on 6 December 2025 at his church above the harbour of Piraeus — the festal liturgy and procession of the parish of the Holy Metropolis of Piraeus, with t…
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Festival
The Feast of Saint Spyridon at Corfu
Church of Saint Spyridon, Corfu
On 12 December Corfu keeps the feast of Saint Spyridon, its patron, at the church built for his relic in 1589, where the relic is set upright at the door of the shrine for days of round-the-clock ven…
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Concert
Les Arts Florissants — Bach Christmas Oratorio
Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall
Les Arts Florissants under Paul Agnew brought Bach's Christmas Oratorio to the Megaron on 16 December 2025 — four of the work's six cantatas, with soloists and chorus, in the Athens Concert Hall's 20…
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Performance
The Nutcracker
Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, Athens
The Nutcracker is a production of Tchaikovsky's ballet by the Greek National Opera Ballet, staged at the Stavros Niarchos Hall from 17 December 2025 across eight performances, with choreography by Ko…
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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 at the Megaron Athens Concert Hall. The 2025 edition, titled Around the World in 80 (and a Few) Minutes, was conducted by A…
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Gala
New Year's Eve at One&Only Aesthesis
One&Only Aesthesis, Glyfada, Athens Riviera
New Year's Eve at One&Only Aesthesis, on the Athens Riviera, was marked on 31 December 2025 across two restaurants: a seven-course gala with live jazz at Ora by Ettore Botrini, and a five-course Lati…
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Gala
New Year's Eve at the Four Seasons Astir Palace
Four Seasons Astir Palace, Vouliagmeni, Athens Riviera
New Year's Eve at the Four Seasons Astir Palace is an annual gala at the Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens on the Vouliagmeni peninsula. On 31 December 2025 the hotel offered a seven-course dinn…
January 2026
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Concert
A Winter Recital at the Niarchos Centre
SNFCC, Kallithea
A Winter Recital at the Niarchos Centre is a recital in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre's January programme in Kallithea. The SNFCC houses the Greek National Opera and the National Li…
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Exhibition
The Museum of Cycladic Art Winter Exhibition
Kolonaki, Athens
The Museum of Cycladic Art Winter Exhibition is a loan show held in the lower galleries on Neofytou Douka in Kolonaki, Athens, running from mid-January through the end of February 2026.
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Performance
The Onassis Foundation Cultural Programme
Onassis Stegi, Athens
The Onassis Foundation Cultural Programme is the annual performing-arts season of the Onassis Stegi in Athens; the 2026 programme — the sixteenth full year of the Syngrou stage — is expected to be an…
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Performance
The Onassis Stegi Winter Cycle
Onassis Stegi, Athens
The Onassis Stegi Winter Cycle is the annual theatre, dance, and film programme at the Onassis Stegi in Athens, running from mid-January to late March 2026, with principal commissions announced in th…
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Gastronomy
The Sigalas Assyrtiko Release
Oia, Santorini
Domaine Sigalas at Oia releases the first allocations of the new Assyrtiko vintage in the second week of January each year, with the Kavalieros, Nykteri and Seven Villages cuvées distributed to Greek…
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Concert
A Winter Recital at the Megaron
Megaron Mousikis, Athens
A Winter Recital at the Megaron is a recital in the Megaron Mousikis winter cycle, Athens's principal concert hall on Vasilissis Sofias. The mid-January 2026 programme is set closer to the date.
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Festival
The Patras Carnival
Patras
The Patras Carnival is an annual carnival held in Patras, Greece, the largest in Greece. The 2026 edition opens on 17 January with the entrance of the King Carnival and closes with the grand parade o…
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Exhibition
The Benaki Museum Winter Exhibition
Kolonaki, Athens
The Benaki Museum Winter Exhibition is an annual exhibition cycle held at the Benaki Museum, Athens, opening in mid-to-late January and running across the Vasilissis Sofias main building and the Pire…
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Exhibition
The Goulandris Foundation Winter Show
Pangrati, Athens
The Goulandris Foundation Winter Show is a temporary loan exhibition at the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation in Pangrati, Athens, running from late January to the end of February 2026.
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Concert
The Greek National Opera Verdi Season
SNFCC, Kallithea
The Greek National Opera Verdi Season is the winter opera series at the Stavros Niarchos Hall, SNFCC, running from 26 January to 8 March 2026 across Friday and Sunday evening performances.
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Exhibition
The Acropolis Museum Winter Exhibition
Acropolis Museum, Athens
The Acropolis Museum Winter Exhibition is a temporary show at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, running from late January through the first week of March 2026. The 2026 edition draws on the conservatio…
February 2026
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Festival
The Carnival of Skyros
Skyros, Sporades
The Carnival of Skyros is an annual pre-Lenten festival held in Chora, the main town of the island of Skyros in the Sporades, running from the opening of the Triodion on 1 February to Clean Monday on…
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Festival
The Rethymno Carnival
Rethymno
The Rethymno Carnival is among the oldest carnivals in Greece, with a lineage traced to 1914. The 2026 edition ran from 1 February to 22 February in Rethymno, Crete, under the theme "Be, live, dress …
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Festival
The Triodion
Greece
The Triodion is the pre-Lenten liturgical period in the Greek Orthodox calendar, opening on 1 February 2026 — the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee — and running to Apokriatiki (Cheesefare Sund…
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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 2026 edition ran from 5 to 8 February across all three stages, opening with Marlene Monteiro Freit…
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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 gathering of the global shipping industry's leadership in Athens, organised in partnership with DNV and in cooperation with the New York…
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Festival
The First Apokries Weekend
Athens
The First Apokries Weekend in Athens falls on 7 and 8 February 2026, opening the Greek Orthodox carnival season as the Triodion begins on 1 February and runs to Clean Monday on 23 February.
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Concert
STEGI.RADIO Takeover
Onassis Stegi, Athens
The 2026 STEGI.RADIO Takeover, the third edition of the Onassis Foundation's annual electronic music festival, ran on 13 and 14 February at the Onassis Stegi in Athens across four stages, closing wit…
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Gastronomy
The Manousakis Winter Release
Vatolakkos, Chania
The Manousakis estate at Vatolakkos — Cretan terroir worked with Mediterranean varietals since 1993, family-run, central to the western Cretan wine revival — releases the first allocations of the new…
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Festival
Clean Monday at Stavros Niarchos Park
Stavros Niarchos Park, Kallithea
On Clean Monday, 23 February 2026, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre held the Koulouma on the Great Lawn — kite workshops, a musical feast led by Vasiliki Karakosta, and the traditional…
March 2026
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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 third edition ran from 1 to 6 March 2026, with eight French chefs…
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Festival
The Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
Olympion, Aristotelous Square, Thessaloniki
The 28th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival ran 5–15 March 2026 at the Olympion and the city's port theatres — 252 documentaries, eighty of them world premieres, under the Golden Alexand…
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Gala
The Chrysoi Skoufoi Awards
Grand Hyatt Athens
The 33rd Chrysoi Skoufoi (Golden Toques), Athinorama's annual awards for the best restaurants in Greece, were presented on Monday 9 March 2026 at a gala dinner at the Grand Hyatt Athens, where 45 toq…
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Trade Show
Oenorama
ONASSIS READY, Ag. Ioannis Rentis, Athens
Oenorama is Vinetum Wine Communication's annual wine exhibition held each March in Athens; the 32nd edition ran from 13 to 16 March 2026 at ONASSIS READY in Ag. Ioannis Rentis, with some 250 producer…
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Regatta
The Greek Revolution Regatta
Faliro to Hydra
The 53rd Greek Revolution Regatta is sailed from 27 to 29 March 2026 — HORC's season-opening offshore race from Faliro to Hydra and back, timed to the 25 March national day.
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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 hosts a residency of three-Michelin-star guest chefs across the 2026 season; the resort reopens on 31 March 2…
April 2026
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Conference
Delphi Economic Forum
European Cultural Centre of Delphi
Founded by Symeon Tsomokos in 2016, the Delphi Economic Forum is an annual international conference held below the ancient sanctuary of Apollo at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi. The eleventh …
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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 was held across two evenings at the Parnassos Literary Society on 29 and 30 April 2026 — a two-part catalogue led by …
May 2026
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Trade Show
The Mediterranean Yacht Show
Port of Nafplio, Argolida
The 11th Mediterranean Yacht Show — the Greek Yachting Association's annual crewed-charter trade show — runs 2 to 6 May 2026 at the Port of Nafplio, with 106 yachts, 485 brokers and 39 exhibitors fro…
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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 show held at Poros. The 22nd edition runs 7–10 May 2026, with some one hundred yachts in the harbour.
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Regatta
The Saronic Spring Regatta
Saronic Gulf
The Saronic Spring Regatta is the Hellenic Sailing Federation's first major regatta of the year, held over the second weekend of May on the Saronic Gulf, with the course running from Kalamaki to Aegi…
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Sport
Spetsathlon
Spetses
Spetsathlon — Greece's largest triathlon weekend — fell across 15 to 17 May 2026 on car-free Spetses, with open-water swims off Agios Mamas, a circuit of the island by bicycle and the Sunday triathlo…
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Gala
The ESG Shipping Awards International
Asteria Glyfada, Athens Riviera
The ESG Shipping Awards International is an annual maritime awards gala held in Athens, organised by Maritime Impact L.P.; the fourth consecutive edition was held on 15 May 2026 at Asteria Glyfada, d…
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Sport
The Historic Acropolis Rally
Thermopylae to the Acropolis, Athens
The classic-car counterpart to the Acropolis Rally ran 22–24 May 2026 from the Leonidas monument at Thermopylae to the foot of the Acropolis, opening the FIA European Historic Rally Championship grav…
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Auction
The Vergos Spring Sale of Modern Greek Art
Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens
Vergos Auctions' spring sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greek painting and sculpture was held on Wednesday 27 May 2026 at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation — 162 works charting two centurie…
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Regatta
The Posidonia Cup
Mikrolimano, Piraeus
The Posidonia Cup is a biennial offshore sailing race held at Mikrolimano in Piraeus, Greece. The 12th edition takes place on 29 May 2026, opening Posidonia Week, the international shipping gathering…
June 2026
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Trade Show
Posidonia
Metropolitan Expo, Athens
Posidonia is a biennial international shipping exhibition held in Athens, Greece. The 29th edition ran from 1 to 5 June 2026 at the Metropolitan Expo in Pallini, drawing more than 35,000 visitors and…
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Performance
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus Farewell Celebrations
Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus Farewell Celebrations is a programme of performances held throughout June 2026 by the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, marking the Odeon's closure for a multi-year restoratio…
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Regatta
The Cyclades Cup
Antiparos
The Cyclades Cup is an annual invitational superyacht regatta held off Antiparos. The third edition runs from 10 to 13 June 2026 in the channel between Antiparos and Paros, organised with the Yacht C…
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Regatta
The Spetses Classic Yacht Regatta
Spetses
The Spetses Classic Yacht Regatta is an annual regatta for classic wooden yachts and traditional caiques, held in the waters off Spetses from 17 to 20 June 2026, marking fifteen years since its found…
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Performance
Medea at Epidaurus
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Argolis
The Greek National Opera gives Cherubini's Medea a single night at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus on 20 June 2026 — sixty-five years after Maria Callas sang the role there, in a staging rebuilt fro…
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Festival
SNF Nostos
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Kallithea
SNF Nostos is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation's free summer festival in Kallithea, running 21 to 28 June 2026 with concerts by David Byrne, Jean-Michel Jarre and Gorillaz and the SNF Nostos Conferenc…
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Sport
The Aegean Messinia Pro-Am
Costa Navarino, Messinia
The Aegean Messinia Pro-Am is an annual pro-am golf tournament held at Costa Navarino on the Ionian coast of Messinia. The twentieth edition runs from 24 to 27 June 2026 with a record field of sevent…
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Sport
EKO Acropolis Rally Greece
Loutraki, Gulf of Corinth
The EKO Acropolis Rally Greece is an annual round of the FIA World Rally Championship held in Greece. The seventieth edition, round eight of the 2026 championship, runs 25 to 28 June 2026 from a new …
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Festival
The Miaoulia of Hydra
Hydra Harbour, Hydra
The Municipality of Hydra's annual commemoration of Andreas Miaoulis — the admiral born on the island in 1769 who made the fireship the decisive weapon of the Greek War of Independence — is held acro…
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