History - Tradition Christmas - New Year's Eve

First Christmas tree in Greece and the custom of Eiressioni

The first Christmas tree in Greece was King’s George fir, in 1834. It was decorated out of his house in Nafplio. It was a very strange spectacle for ...

Christmas customs, Epirus

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"The lighted kermes oak" When Christ was born and the shepherds went to worship, the night was dark. They found dry kermes oak somewhere and cut its ...

Christmas customs, Thessalia

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"To taisma tis vrysis" (The ‘feeding’ of the water fountain") The young girls, the dawn of Christmas and the New Year's Eve in other places, go to ...

Christmas customs, Thrace

Elpiniki Kal

‘Tsoumakes’ On Christmas Eve morning, many children groups came into the dark alleyways of the villages holding thick and long woods that are called ...

Christmas customs, Crete

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«Xygopites» (suet pie or suet pitta) On Christmas Eve, in the villages of eastern Crete, the Day of Agii Deka (Ten Saints) is celebrated. As part of ...

Christmas customs, Macedonia

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"Christoxylo" In the villages of Northern Greece, on Christmas Eve, the landlord of each house searches in the fields and brings home the most ...

Christmas customs, Kyklades

Anastasia Nisiotissa

In the Cyclades islands, the celebrations for "Dodekaimeron" (Christmas, New Year's Day, and Epiphany) have a special, unique identity, which varies ...

Christmas customs, Lesvos

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«CHRISTMAS CAROLS» On the evening of Christmas, the priest and the children chant Christmas carols and songs in the forum of the village or in the ...

Christmas customs, Samos

Anastasia Nisiotissa

On Christmas days, they make all the desserts to sweeten the newborn Christ while they are slaughtering the pork to make the so-called "pihti", that ...