2nd Gastronomy Festival Potamious Village - 6.10.2024
2024-10-06 15:00 UTC | Paphos
We are waiting for you in the village square Fader Leonidas. Enjoy for free traditional trahanas, cookies, timithotes (pies), hot palouze (made from grape juice), wine and zivania. Gastronomic workshops for the preparation of traditional Cyprus products, pumpkin decoration.
15:30 Easy bike wine route for kids and adults (bring your own bikes)
16:30 Walking tour guide in the village.
17:00 Interactive game in various spots of the village (for kids and adults)
Traditional Music.
For more information: 99580630 (Sofi), 96401506 (Lenia)
Venue/s
Name: Potamiou village
Start date/End date: 6 October 2024 at 15:00
Entrance Price/Τicket: Free

Tsakkisti elia (green olive) festival - 7-12.10.2024
2024-10-07 18:30 - 2024-10-12 22:15 | Traditional products laboratory Stylianos Ch. Athini, Episkopi Limassol, 13 Agias Paraskevis, Limassol, 4620, Cyprus
This year’s “Green Olive Festival” aims primarily to further promote the traditional product of the green cracked olive and its preparation method, as well as to introduce the public to other products that feature olives as a key ingredient. Additionally, through this festival, we seek to highlight our cultural heritage, the customs and traditions of our region, as well as our traditional dances and songs. This year, the entire event will be significantly upgraded and extended in duration.
The “Green Olive Festival” will take place from October 7 to October 12 this year. During the week, experiential workshops will be held for the preparation of traditional olive pie and other baked goods at a local bakery, as well as a screening of a film about olives at a local open-air cinema (there would be a parallel screening at the indoors cinema hall). On October 12, the event program will begin with the opening of the traditional olive mill, followed by a small artistic performance at the outdoor space of the mill and a contest for cracking green olives. Then, accompanied by live traditional music, there will be a “patinada”—a traditional procession where musicians and dancers parade through the streets, performing lively folk music and dance— the the parking place of Protis Apriliou (1st of April) Square. There, the event will continue with a traditional celebration including live music Vasiliki Hadjiadamou’s band and Cypriot folk dances performed by the “Othellos” dance group.
At the event main venue, there will be stalls selling green cracked olives, extra virgin olive oil, traditional sweets made with olives, olive paste, various olive-based baked goods, olive oil-based cosmetics and an experiential workshop on olive cracking. Upon entering the main menu, each visitor will receive a traditional treat consisting of warm bread with olive oil, cracked olives, and wine, as well as canapés where cracked olives will be used in a more contempory manner. Additionally, there will be a publication available to the public that will include both the preparation process of green cracked olives, as well as traditional and modern serving suggestions recommended by a professional baker and a professional chef, along with recipes for dishes featuring olives as the main ingredient. Food, drinks, desserts and other traditional products would be available too.

Entrance is free for all the events.
The cost to purchase food during the traditional eveningis: Adults – €20, Children (up to 12 years) – €12

Start time/ End time:
Workshop: 18:30 – 20:30
Cinema: 20:15 – 22:15
Opening event at the Traditional Olive Mill: 18:45 – 19:45
Traditional evening : 20:00 – late

Agia Napa 19th Medieval Festival - 12-19.10.2024
2024-10-12 19:00 - 2024-10-19 00:00 | Agia Napa Central Square, Georgios Seferis Square (central square), Agia Napa
The month October can rightly be called «Medieval October» for Agia Napa, as these mysterious times are revived through its Medieval Festival. From the 12th to the 19th of October 2024, Agia Napa time travels back to the Middle Ages. The 8-day long journey through the myths with the fair maidens, the fairies and the iron-clad knights who battle dragons and villains, transports us to a world of fantasy, mystery and magic. Through the fantastic parades, the re-enactments of events and the daily lives of people from another era, the storytelling through music and song, the Medieval Festival of Agia Napa leaves an indelible social and spiritual imprint of the legends.
The Medieval Festival was first celebrated in the year 2006, and it has managed to become, after 18 years of successful events and collaborations with other Medieval Festivals such as the Medieval Festival of Rhodes, Malta – Mendina and the Carnival of Venice, to become one of the largest in Europe. Music and dance performances, street theaters and narrative tours by groups of dancers, musicians, artists and students from Cyprus and European countries, follow the footsteps of medieval exploits. The festival also offers bazaars with handmade products and homemade food of that distant era and exhibitions of textiles, weapons and embroidery, which can be found along the passage of the Monastery of Agia Napa during the eight days.
For the programme click here

Ppazlouzes Event/Festival, at Ayios Mamas Village Limassol - 13.10.2024
2024-10-13 13:30 - 19:00 | Square of Saint Mamas Church, Agios Mamas Village of Limassol, Agios Mamas, 4741, Cyprus
An event dedicated to tradition, with the main theme being, the preparation of authentic “palouzes” and “sousioukos”, – the famous Cyprus traditional desserts, made of vine crapes juice, known as “moustos. Prepared as is customary in the mountainous wine villages of the Limassol district.
Visitors will have the opportunity to watch and take part in the traditional process of making the ppalouzes and dipping of sousioukos.
Also, will be treated with plenty of fresh made, ppalouzes and enjoy live traditional and Greek music and dances.
For our little friends there will be entertainment station with crafts, painting, clay and lucky wheel with lot of surprises. Kids can also enjoy donkey rides through the streets of the village.
For the most daring guests, we have a challenging arm-wrestling competition.
There will be a market with many types of traditional food and drinks for sale (ppalouzes, sousioukos, kiofterka, pastelli, homemade bread, variety of nuts, Cyprus sweets & jams, Zivania and Commandaria are some of the products you can find.
Visitors may rest at the Café-neio near the Church enjoying hot or refreshing drinks and other snacks.
During the event, the following places will be open to visitors.

The Church of Ayios Mamas
The newly established exhibition (inside the church of Agios Mamas), where visitors can see ecclesiastical exhibits and Icons of significant historical value.
The Rebecca Winery. (a few meters below the venue) The place of “Commandaria Revecca” – the Gold Medal winner of the Cyprus Wine Competition 2024
The Folk museum of the village. Exhibition of traditional tools and objects.

Ancient Olive Tree Festival - 20.10.2024
2024-10-20 11:00 - 19:00 | Paramali Stadium, Paramali, 4507
Olive trees and Mediterranean: a unique harmonious coexistence, perfectly connected and identified for centuries create a special culture, the culture of the Olive Tree, a part of the Mediterranean Culture.
The olive trees coexist with humans in almost all Neolithic settlements of the eastern Mediterranean, including Cyprus. Thus, the existence of monumental olive trees, due to age or natural characteristics, is expected.
Paramali village, which was a royal estate during the Venetian times, has been blessed with a very large number of centuries-old olive trees, which are a point of reference and cultural heritage for the village, and a source of inspiration for the festival that will honour them, emphasizing their value, as well as the unique olive oil that, which apart from being a key ingredient of the Mediterranean diet, was also the first cosmetic in the world.
The Ancient Olive Tree Festival, which will be held under the auspices of the Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Dr Maria Panagiotou, opens festively at 11.00, hosts 25 exhibitors, 4 experiential workshops for children, olive oil tasting, rich local gastronomy, and a musical program with dances and Vasiliki Hatziadamou at 17.00.
Information: 99427980
For the programme click here
