Holidays in Greece
January 1: The Beginning of the New Year.
January 6: Epiphany.
March 25: Independence celebrates and commemorates the announcement of the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary.
Friday: day of abstinence, the death of Christ is lived almost as a national mourning.
Sunday of Easter is celebrated 40 days after the carnival, when there is the first full moon. Easter is the most important holiday of the year!
May 1: Labor Day.
Ascension is celebrated 40 days after Easter.
Pentecost is celebrated 50 days after Easter, always on Monday.
August 15: Assumption of the Virgin Maria.Si place on the island of Tinos.
December 6: St. Nicholas
December 25: Christmas
December 26: Boxing Day
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