Holidays and Commemorations of Greece
January 1 New Year's Day
January 8 Ginaikratia is a festival of women in Greece
February 1 Apokryes is Shrovetide in Greece.
March 25 Greek Independence Day
April 12 Easter
May 19 Commemoration of the Genocide of the Greeks of Asia Minor
May 21 Pyrovassia - fire-burning in Greece.
May 27 is Ivan Day in Greece
June 1 Hellenic Festival in Epidaurus
June 23 Midsummer Night
August 15 Kimisi tis Theotokou is the Greek summer Easter.
October 26 St. Demetrius Day
October 28 is Ohi Day in Greece, a public holiday celebrated annually in the country on October 28 to commemorate the events of 1940.
November 17 is the country's student holiday Polytekneo, which is the anniversary of the 1973 student protests against the "Black Colonels" military junta
December 6 is St. Nicholas Day in Greece
December 15 Day of Remembrance for the victims of the NKVD "Greek Operation"
December 25 Christmas Day
Greek Festivals
January 6 to 8 is the Ragoutsaria Carnival in Kastoria, in Thessaloniki there's a "parade of lights," "yogurt fights," "shaving the groom" or flying kites into the sky on Clean Monday.
January 17 is the bicentennial carnival in Patras. A series of shows during which treasure hunts are held, culminating in the burning of an effigy of the Carnival King.
Naus City - a three-day wine carnival before Clean Monday.
