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Kefalonia Local Events

Kefalonia has many religious festivals and celebrations taking place throughout the year, especially during the warmer summer months. Most of these festivals and events are organised in Keflonia's picturesque villages and in its capital city, ensuring you are easily able to participate in the festivities.

Listed below are the upcoming Kefalonia events and festivals, but please visit this page regularly for an updated list of fesival and events in Kefalonia. As you plan your visit for one of the events listed below, be sure to book ahead with one of our Kefalonia hotels.

Events

Ionian Island Union with Greece Anniversary

21/05/2010

Place: Lixouri & Argostoli

This event is national, however it is of high importance and is celebrated mostly in the Ionian islands.

Religious Invocation to Our Holy Mother

06/08/2010

Place: Langadakia

This is organized by the Cultural Society of Havdata.


A Day Celebrating the Saviour's Metamorphosis

06/08/2010

Place: Porto of Lixouri

This is a day celebrating the Saviour's Metamorphosis, a day of garlic-sauce (skordalia) and codfish at 21:00 at The Porto of Lixouri.

Wine Celebration at Mantzavinata

08/08/2010

Place: Public school at Mantzavinata

The yearly established wine celebration of the cultural society, The Kounopetra, starts at 21:00 in Public School at Mantzavinata village.

Wine Festival

21/08/2010

Place: Mantzavinata

This festival is another celebration for the favourite product of Kefalonia, wine. This time it will be celebrated in a village on the West peninsula of Paliki in the village of Mantzavinata.

The Assumption of The Holiest Virgin Mary

15/08/2010

Place: Church's courtyard

This event is a celebration of the Virgin Mary Perlingou at Lixouri. 

Robola Festival

16/08/2010

Place: Omala valley

The Omala Valley and the surrounding countryside are the centre of the Robola - the wine for which Kefalonia is most renowned.

Dormition of the Virgin in Markopoulo

15/08/2010

Place: Markopoulo

The Dormition of the Virgin is celebrated all over Greece, but there is something special happening in a small church called "Panayia Lakouvarda" or "Fidousa", in Kefalonia

Saint Gerasimos

16/08/2010

Place: Omala valley

This is the greatest religious event in Kefalonia celebrating Saint Gerasimos, the miracle-working patron saint.





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