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Wine festival
More than two thousand people visit the courtyard of the elementary school in Agios Dimitrios, the viticulture village of Limnos, the first Saturday evening after August 15nth, for free wine tasting, including the entire variety of Limnos’ wines, dry and sweet, white, rosé and red, treated by the Cultural Association of Agios Dimitrios.
The housewives of the village are offering delicacies to accompany the wine such as stuffed vine leaves, fried cheese pies, pumpkin pies and local sweets.
The residents of Agios Dimitrios are also great dancers and musicians. During the overnight feast they are dancing balos, kechagiadiko and old Asia Minor dances.
Festival in Hephaestia
If you visit Limnos in late August, do not miss this experience. Watch a performance of ancient Greek drama, in one of the most important theatres of Greek Antiquity and the Aegean Sea, in the land of Philoctetes.
The Festival of Hephaestia as a cultural Event of the Municipality of Limnos, started a few years ago, in 2010, when the theater of the late 5th century BC, hosted a performance attended by audience after 2.300 years!
Cultural Summer of the Municipality of Limnos
The island lives in a fever of creativity and inspiration throughout the year, which reaches its peak with the Cultural Summer of the Municipality of Limnos. The Municipality organizes over the last years several events in Myrina and the villages with great success, while supporting the parallel actions of local artists, associations and workshops.
Performances of Limnos’ Folk Scene, one of the most active amateur theater groups of the Aegean, are taking place in the inner courtyard of the High School of Myrina, while two buildings-ornaments in Romeikos Gialos, Parthenagogeio and Christodoulideio, transform into galleries for exhibitions, on an island with a long tradition and activity in the fine arts.
Accordion concerts, musical evenings under the stars at the windmills in Kontias and at the dependency of the Cathedral, in Karpasi, concerts by your favorite artists, street musicals, visual art exhibitions at the overactive Art Gallery in Kontias take place during the summer nights.
