After nearly an hour of grappling with his opponent under the blazing sun, Turkey’s “Tireless Wrestler” was crowned the winner of the 663rd Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Championships.
TRADITION
A Natsu Matsuri summer festival occurred late last week in Athens’ public Japanese Park, in the Pangrati neighborhood.
A musician plays a santour during a revival of the Klidonas ritual at the park of Akadimia Platonos (Plato’s Academy) in central Athens.
In his charming ground-floor workshop in the Athenian neighborhood of Galatsi, the violin Dimitris Kakos holds in his capable hands is more than an instrument; it is a thread stretching back three centuries.
An itinerant workshop of builders, architects, engineers and others specializing in traditional construction methods and materials are among this year’s recipients of the prestigious Europa Nostra heritage awards for their work in restoring vestiges of Greece’s vernacular infrastructure and architecture.
At a small shrine in northern Greece, locals clutching icons of Greek Orthodox saints dance to lyres and drums in preparation for a ceremony in which they will walk on fire barefoot.
Chinese schoolgirls perform the Ancient Greek “Seikilos Epitaph” song, the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD.
At the age of 15 he made his first violin under the guidance of his father, fell in love with art and studied in Cremona, Italy.
People race horses in Doxato, a town located in northeastern Drama, in a photo made available on Tuesday.
Greeks throughout the country celebrated the Clean Monday holiday in the time-honoured fashion on Monday, with outdoor activities such as kite-flying and picnics, the traditional lenten delicacies, music and dancing.While many quit the cities to enjoy the long weekend in the countryside, municipalities in Attica were also throwing parties for those left behind, offering free […]
A new project by the Archipelago Network aims to explore the age-old maritime traditions of the Cyclades, and conserve them for future generations.
A multicultural lakeside city hosting people of different ethnic backgrounds and their music: “This was Ioannina 200 years ago, a completely different state and society than it was after World War II,” says Christopher King, the distinguished American ethnomusicologist.
The American School of Classical Studies invites US ethnomusicologist Christopher King for a discussion on the violin in the traditional music of the Epirus region of northern Greece.
Eleven-year-old Esma Gljiva from Sarajevo is very precise when making dolls dressed in traditional Muslim, Christian Orthodox and Catholic costumes, and takes care over hairstyles and miniature jewelry.
Every summer, festivals on the Greek islands and the mainland begin in late June and end on August 15 with the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, like in Olympos on Karpathos (pictured).
The Museum of Cycladic Art has launched Cycladic Identity, an initiative to preserve and highlight the character of Greece’s famous island cluster and attract donations and sponsorships, with which it will support organizations active in the islands with programs related to culture, biodiversity and intangible cultural heritage.
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