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Panigiria in Corfu are traditional saint's-day festivals - free, open-air celebrations with live music, food and dancing in village squares and church courtyards, running from late June to early September. Corfu's are unlike anywhere else in Greece: the island's Venetian past gave it philharmonic brass bands and mandolin serenades rather than klarino or lyra. The summer's anchors are the Agios Spyridon litany on 11 August, the Dormition peak on 15 August at Kassiopi and the Platytera Monastery, and village feasts from Magoulades to Sinarades. Mood tracks the live folk and traditional events that run across the island alongside them.
Panigiria in Heraklion are traditional saint's-day festivals - free, open-air Cretan celebrations across central Crete, where an Orthodox feast becomes a night of lyra, laouto, mantinades, raki and dancing until dawn. The summer's largest gathering is Agios Myron at the village of Agios Myronas on 7-8 August, followed by the Dormition peak on 15 August in Archanes, Venerato and Zaros, and Panagia Karkadiotissa at Agios Thomas on 8 September. Mood tracks the live Cretan music and folk events that run alongside the feasts across the area.
Panigiria in Chania are traditional saint's-day festivals - free, open-air celebrations in the villages of western Crete, where a feast becomes a night of Cretan lyra, rizitika songs, raki and dancing until dawn. The rizitika - austere "songs of the roots" from the White Mountains - are found nowhere else in Greece. The peak is 15 August, when the Apokoronas plateau (Litsarda, Fres, Pemonia, Alikambos, Kefalas) and Sfakia's Anopoli Graviera Festival light up at once, alongside the clifftop Chrysoskalitissa monastery near Elafonissi. Mood tracks the live Cretan music and folk events that run across the area.