Tsoureki is a very traditional sweet bread, made mostly during the Greek Easter period. …
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Although celebrated throughout Greece, nobody celebrates ‘Clean Monday’ quite like the residents of Galaxidi who hold an annual ‘flour war’ or alevromoutzouromata (flour smudging), whereby all and sundry flock to the streets armed with sacks of ‘ammunition’ such as colourfully dyed flour, soot and confetti.
Kathara Deftera (Clean Monday) is the first day of Great Lent in the Greek Orthodox…
Today the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Apokries, Meatfare Sunday, which is the last day of…
Today is Psihosavato, a day in a series of Saturdays set aside in the liturgical…
Today the Greek Orthodox Church remembers the miracle of Saint Theodore the Tyro and Kolyva (boiled wheat).
Today is Tsiknopempti (Smoky Thursday) for 2022, otherwise referred to as the week of Kreatini.…
Today is Psihosavato, a day in a series of Saturdays set aside in the liturgical…
Greek City Times is proud to present a weekly historical snapshot from the archives of…
Greek City Times is proud to present a weekly historical snapshot from the archives of…
Not many would think that the Ancient Greek poet Homer made first mention of the…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis issued an Easter message for all Greeks on Sunday, along…
Nasos Papargyropoulos may have left the city, like most people, but he chose neither a…
In Cyprus, three people were seriously injured outside churches by crackers on Holy Saturday night,…
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday was celebrated in the Athens neighbourhood of…
Greek City Times is proud to present a weekly historical snapshot from the archives of…
Lamb, tsoureki and red eggs has become synonymous with Greek Easter. But it may seem…
Mykonos seems to be at the top of the preference for Greeks traveling during the…
The game of cracking red eggs, or “tsougrisma” as the Greeks call it, symbolises the breaking open of the tomb and Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead. The custom takes place after the resurrection on Easter Saturday at midnight or the following day during Paschal feasts.
Greece prepares for its first ‘normal’ Easter tourism period after two year hiatus due to…