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🇬🇷 Festivals in Greece

51 festivals celebrated in Greece, across 13 cities and towns.

Cities and towns

Athens 5 Eleusis 2 Sparta 2 Eleutherae 1 Epidaurus 1 Icaria 1 Kollytos 1 Lamia 1 Loutraki 1 Nemea 1 Patras 1 Piraeus 1 Thessaloniki 1

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Usually in May, date not yet confirmed 1

Sports Mayvaries Acropolis Rally🇬🇷 Athens, Greece

Usually in June, date not yet confirmed 1

Sports Junvaries Nemean Games🇬🇷 Nemea, Greece

Usually in September, date not yet confirmed 1

Sports Sepvaries Spartathlon🇬🇷 Athens, Greece

Shared with much of the world

Celebrated in Greece and in many other countries.

Usually in August, date not yet confirmed 1

Sports Augvaries Chess Olympiad🇳🇴 Norway and 22 more countries

Usually in September, date not yet confirmed 1

Sports Sepvaries Chess Olympiad🇦🇿 Azerbaijan and 29 more countries

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Chess Olympiad: Vanjagenije, CC0, source
Nemean Games: Robin Iversen Rönnlund, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Spartathlon: Czajamatyas, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Chess Olympiad: Presidential Press and Information Office, CC BY 4.0, source
Acropolis Rally: Nickgleris ( talk ), CC0, source

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