Today we are going to tell you about the Greek tradition of VASILOPITA, the cake we cut and share on New Year’s Eve or Day. The vasilopita is usually a cake with a coin inside it.

If someone rings your doorbell early in the morning of 24, 31 December or 5 January, don’t think it’s a naughty neighbor determined to wake you up, it will probably be children singing the “calanda”, the Greek Christmas carols

Now that Christmas is just around the corner, it’s time we learnt some things about Greek customs and traditions. Today’s story is about KALIKANTZARI.

Mischievous creatures !

the tradition of VASILOPITA

“Kalin imeran archondes” (“good day Lords”)

We are planning a guided tour of The Μuseum of Greek Folk Art

Today we are going to send you on a strange, but very entertaining and…dirty trip outside Athens to celebrate Clean Monday.

ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΓΑΙΑ

Πλάθοντας Γεύσεις της Γιορτής και της Παράδοσης
Κυριακή 30 Ιανουαρίου

Last Friday (17th September) we went, as planned, to Dora Stratou dance theatre.
The group was multi-national-there were Germans, Swiss, French, Americans, and us.
The performance was colourful, interesting, full of music, songs and nothing like the “tourist”shows you may have seen before.
You really should have come,but get ready for our next one!

Dance [...]

Sometimes during an event we feel very intensely “God, it’s so beautiful! I wish more people could attend it!” That’s how we felt last Friday at the Lykeion during our event on Greek tradition.

The guide was amazing, she switched from English to German and then to French without hesitating when she [...]

You can’t imagine how excited I am!
I’ve just come home from the centre of Athens where I visited the Lyceum Club of Greek Women, which was founded in 1911 in Greece by Callirroe Parren,
a pioneer of the feminist movement in Greece and the first woman journalist.
The Lyceum is a volunteer organization which has, for 93 [...]