Ascension Day (Analipsi)
Forty days after Easter, villages with an Ascension church hold their feast.
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Panigiri of Agia Triada (Pentecost)
The first big panigiri of the Sitia summer, on the evening of Pentecost.
When
- Sonntag 20 Juni 2027
- Sonntag 4 Juni 2028
Panigiria start the evening before the feast day: vespers in church, then food, music and dancing until late.
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The feast of the Holy Trinity falls on Pentecost, fifty days after Orthodox Easter, so the date moves every year. In Palaikastro the association sets up tables in the schoolyard with a full menu and good Cretan musicians, and the night opens the panigiri season of East Crete.
Smaller celebrations take place in the village of Agia Triada and in other churches of the Holy Trinity around Lasithi.
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Cherry Festival
A village celebration of the cherry harvest with sweets, raki and Cretan dancing.
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The Monday after Pentecost is a public holiday, with feasts at Holy Spirit churches.
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