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May 2024

From Aristotle to Mount Athos

May 15 @ 6:00 pm
Mount Athos Resort, Ierissos Port
Ierissos, 63075 Greece
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International symposium of a pilgrimage and cultural flavor. Aristotle, the all-wise philosopher of the ancient world - our ancestor, fellow citizen - decisively changes the ideas, the education and the methodology of the sciences. He dominates to the reflection of the western world, since the system that explains in his documents also works in the Christian Middle Ages. The power of the Aristotelian universe infuses ecclesiastical thought, through Aristotle's influence on great theologians.

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From Aristotles to Mount Athos

May 16 @ 9:00 am - 9:00 pm
Ancient Stageora, Olympiada
Olympiada, Halkidiki 57014 Greece
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International symposium of a pilgrimage and cultural flavor. Aristotle, the all-wise philosopher of the ancient world - our ancestor, fellow citizen - decisively changes the ideas, the education and the methodology of the sciences. He dominates to the reflection of the western world, since the system that explains in his documents also works in the Christian Middle Ages. The power of the Aristotelian universe infuses ecclesiastical thought, through Aristotle's influence on great theologians.

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From Aristotles to Mount Athos

May 17 @ 2:00 am - 5:00 pm
Athonite Gulf, Mount Athos
Ouranoupolis, Halkidiki 63075 Greece
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International symposium of a pilgrimage and cultural flavor. Aristotle, the all-wise philosopher of the ancient world - our ancestor, fellow citizen - decisively changes the ideas, the education and the methodology of the sciences. He dominates to the reflection of the western world, since the system that explains in his documents also works in the Christian Middle Ages. The power of the Aristotelian universe infuses ecclesiastical thought, through Aristotle's influence on great theologians.

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The tsigarista (fried small pieces of pork meat) and the potatoes

May 18 @ 8:00 pm
Paleochori Central Square, Paleochori, Halkidiki 63074 Greece + Google Map

It's wonderful that in Paleochori locals still cook and fry delicious "tsigaridia" and potatoes in the extra virgin olive oil of Megali Panagia. It is a great value, a precious data for Greece - to fry in such an olive oil, like that of Eastern Halkidiki. In our country (of the olive tree), olive oil is the most important national product: its bitterness, the delicious spiciness of its taste and all its complex aromatic elements add up to a boon.…

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The traditional café (kafenedes) and the fried pies (pitadoudia)

May 19 @ 8:00 pm
Stanos, Central Square, 63074 Greece + Google Map

Today's story begins in a traditional cafe (kafenes) in Stanos: it is the old ""Dimitra's"" kafenes, which today serves delicious dishes of the local cuisine. Simple but hearty delicacies, made with few but local ingredients, dishes of very fresh and local raw materials, which deifies the products of the land at their most prime moment. In the Stanos kafenedes, people still cook with what is available, just like ""old people"" did. The ""table"" offered what the earth had - in…

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The sea litany, networking and dava dinner

May 20 @ 8:00 pm
Ouranoupolis Square Prosforiou, Ouranoupolis
Ouranoupolis, 63075 Greece
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Eve of Saints Constantine & Helen! Ouranoupolis. Where ➡️ they are protectors and Patron Saints. Vespers in the Church. Religious holiday. A band. A litany of religious people. Girls dressed in Asia Minor costumes. Procession. Spring at its best. The shopping center full of trinkets and goods. The tower is imposing. Its square, the gate of Mount Athos. Lights. A nice music. And then the twinning: between the Municipality of Aristotle and the Municipality of Banja Luka from Bosnia-Herzegovina. "I…

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The feast of Sain Constantine & Helen at Ouranoupolis

May 21 @ 8:00 pm
Ouranoupolis Square Prosforiou, Ouranoupolis
Ouranoupolis, 63075 Greece
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Dance in the Tower Prosforiou Square. Skater. Feast. Traditional music bands. Dancers dressed in colorful costumes. Musicals. The Macedonia of joy and the perpetuation of customs. All of Greece at the Gate of Mount Athos. We welcome Bosnians. Yesterday in the same square we became brothers. We dance with them. Smoke from roasts. Voices. We live it! Come too!

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4 seafood pastes: of Tuscany

May 23 @ 8:00 pm
Mount Athos Resort, Ierissos Port
Ierissos, 63075 Greece
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How could the culinary culture of Tuscany be networked with the local seafood cuisine in the destination of marine abundance, means the Athonian gulfs? Easily. In the Athonian Society, where all the sea products are divinely concentrated, local seafood production meets the Italian pastes and creates a new, authentic identity in the cosmopolitan confusion. In the place of true stories, culinary myths - between the delicious, the mystical, the mundane and the otherworldly. The Italian visiting chef Francesco Piparo meets…

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4 sea food pastes: of Puglia

May 24 @ 8:00 pm
Fish Restaurant Tzanis – TRINITY, Ammouliani
Halkidiki, Halkidiki 63075 Greece
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There are destinations that spread an unadulterated charm, that say eternal stories, that tell unique myths, that turn descriptions into experience. All indelibly imprinted in calendars of travel and culinary memories. One such place is the Italian Puglia, which is lazily lost in the Adriatic and the Ionian - on the same geographical parallel as Ammouliani. There (in Ammouliani) - at the historic seafood tavern Tzanis - not far away of the Athonian peak, Puglia and Ammouliani meet each other's…

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4 sea food pastes: from Palermo

May 25 @ 8:00 pm
Restaurant Akroyiali, Olympiada Coast
Olympiada, 63074 Greece
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A traditional Sicilian recipe, pasta alla Norma owes its name to "Norma", the famous Sicilian melodrama by Vincenzo Bellini. Her godfather is Nino Martoglio. The legend finds the Sicilian author being excited by the taste of pasta (usually penne) and the eggplant Mediterranean sauce. Then he exclaimed "Norma!", likening their taste to his favorite opera. Today the Sicilian guest chef Francesco Piparo presents a Sicilian Norma cooked with local vegetables and flavored with aromatic herbs - collected by Andreas from…

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4 sea food pastes: of Messina

May 26 @ 8:00 pm
Ouranoupolis Commercial Road, Ouranoupolis
Ouranoupolis, Halkidiki 63075 Greece
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Pasta con le sarde is a typical dish of Sicilian cuisine. It is seasonal: it is enjoyed from March to September, when in Sicily freshly caught sardines and wild fennel can be found. There are many variations of this pasta. According to Sicilian tradition, pasta with sardines was invented by an Arab chef of Eufemio da Messina during the Arab military campaign in the area of Syracuse. The above mentioned chef had to prepare food for the numerous troops, but…

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June 2024

The Mediterranean Malta

June 12 @ 8:00 pm
Avaton Luxury Hotel & Villas – Relais & Chateaux, Komitsa Bay
Nea Roda, 63075 Greece
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A dinner coming from Valletta, which is "transported" to the Komitsa Coast. Guest chef Emie Briefa and the executive chef of Avaton Relais & Chateaux, Panos Papadopoulos, collaborate, offering to the travelers an amazing Maltese menu with a Mediterranean flavor. Main course is the famous rabbit - singature recipe of Malta. A magical dinner, in a mythical landscape - Mount Athos and Akanthios Bay as the background.

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Green Mediterranean Islands in the same parallel

June 13 @ 8:00 pm
Camino Club, Xiropotami
Ierissos, 63075 Greece
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Malta and Eastern Halkidiki, are "bathed" in the red sun's light, which sets in Xiropotami. A "paradise" beach. The white sand. The peak of Mount Athos in the crazy dance, set up by nature around the Camino Club. We welcome Maltese guest chefs. Local ones cook with them, culinaryly deifying the Mediterranean. Music is intoxicating. Dishes are based on our own products - of the sea. The "green Mediterranean islands on the same geographical parallel" promote two destinations. Sun falls…

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Only grilled sea food!

June 14 @ 8:00 pm
Restaurant OLYMPIC, Olympiada Coast
Olympiada, 63074 Greece
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A magical workbench is put on the pedestrian coastal street of Olympiada. The Aristotelian sea and the Ancient Stagira are the background. Fish of all kinds are grilled on site. Smoke billow and lick the air. The smell is fascinating. Mediterranean. Ripe tomatoes and vegetables collected from the local gardens are also grilled. Maltese chefs Emie Brieffa and Aldo Vera are introduced to the mentality of the locals. Walks. Smells. Sea music. The Mediterranean Sea. Malta learns Greece. All on…

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The mediterranean workshop

June 15 @ 8:00 pm
Finest Fish Restaurant Kokkinos, Ouranoupolis Halkidiki 63075 Greece + Google Map

Culinary workshop at Finest Fish Restaurant Kokkinos. Mediterranean dishes: local seafood and herbs. Maltese visiting chefs Emie Briefa and Aldo Vela present Maltese street food. Pies filled with all nature's treasure and Stathori goat and yellow cheeses! Seafood skewers, fish bruschettas, vegetables with various sauces, sun-dried tomatoes, pasta with delicious Mediterranean marinades, etc. - prepared by the magical team of chefs in Kokkinos' cozy yard - where bustling Ouranoupolis meets the culinary culture of Malta. We are definitely waiting for…

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July 2024

Aristotle – Comfucius Project = the symposium, the libation

July 20 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Ancient Stageora, Olympiada
Olympiada, Halkidiki 57014 Greece
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A Chinese libation to Aristotle and a Greek libation to Confucius. In the middle of the Ancient Agora. Then dance and Chinese theater. And then, Aristotelian sections from the "Ideal State". And "Ta Physika". We follow the Aristotelian Walk. We smell. The Plants of Aristotle and the Herbs of Alexander the Great. We taste. We see. We are ecstatic. We feel. We are listening. We redeem ourselves. Extroversion in all its glory. The road to China opens...

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Aristotle – Comfucius Project = the Akanthios and the Athonite wine

July 21 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Nea Roda Theather, Nea Roda Port
Nea Roda, Halkidiki 63075 Greece
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➡️ Where Persian King Xerxes opened the Athonian land, ➡️ where the narrow peninsula divides the Athonian sea into two seas, ➡️ where the Aristotelian arm meets the Athonian one, in the Theater of the Nea Roda - a shrine to the Akanthios Gulf, Chinese artists, orators and sophists speak of the virtue of Confucius. Chinese dancers organize monastic libations (offering) and the pouring of the Akanthios wine follows the athonic one. The flows are intoxicating. The libation (offering) of…

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Aristotle – Comfucius Project = monastic cuisine, afloat around Athos

July 22 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Around Mount Athos, Mount Athos
Mount Athos, Halkidiki 63075 Greece
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A beautiful boat - Athos Sea Cruises' Agios Georgios - sets sail. It sails along Mount Athos. It anchors 500 meters from the Holy Monastery of Diochiariou. A Chinese chef. Two Locals. They welcome him. They prepare monastic dishes. The fishermen have brought big white fish. The gardeners brought fresh vegetables. The large pot is put on the fire. The table (trapeza) is being prepared. Simple. All around us monk stories and images - a tapestry of green and blue…

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Aristotle – Comfucius Project – the chinese monastic cuisine

July 23 @ 8:00 pm
Eagles Palace Resort, Ouranoupolis
Ouranoupolis, Halkidiki 63075 Greece
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Dinner under the summer night light. Pairing of monastic cuisine = Mount Athos and China. Two culinary cultures - western and eastern with common mental virtue. Two chefs. A local and a Chinese one. The menu wrapped in a 'stick' full of history. The flavors wrapped around it. Monastic food = from Mount Athos and Monk Epiphanius to the Qufu of the meditator Confucius.

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August 2024

The Kazakh cuisine and the dances of the East

August 10 @ 8:00 pm
Ammouliani Central Port, Ammouliani Port
Ammouliani, Halkidiki 63075 Greece
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Kazakhs from the Asian homelands of Pontus arrive at the port of Ammouliani to present KOUZINA and their dances: they set up fire pits, they knead mandi - filling them with meat and herbs- they prepare the heavy pots and steam their pasta creations. They offer them to the public. Delicious. They describe their homeland. There were also Greeks there. From Pontus. Even now Greeks consist a community. Then they start dancing. Lavender. Whirlingly. Strength-full. Keeping swords. And knives. Stability.…

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The Kazakh cuisine and the dances of the East

August 11 @ 8:00 pm
Arnea Town Hall Sqaure, Arnea
Arnea, Halkidiki 63074 Greece
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Kazakhs from the Asian homelands of Pontus arrive at the Arnea squares to present KOUZINA and their dances: ➥ they set up fire pits, ➥ they knead mandi - filling them with meat and herbs- ➥ they prepare the heavy pots and steam their pasta creations. They offer Mandi to the public. Delicious. They describe their homeland. There were also Greeks there. From Pontus. Even now Greeks consist a community. Then they start dancing. Lavender. Whirlingly. Strengthfully. Keeping swords. And…

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Pontic cuisine: from Ierissos to Almaty, Kazakhstan

August 12 @ 8:00 pm
Ierissos Central Pier, Mouragio Restaurant
Ierissos, Halkidiki 63075 Greece
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Kazakhs from the Asian homelands of Pontus arrive at the Ierissos central pior to present KOUZINA and their dances: they set up fire pits, they knead mandi - filling them with meat and herbs- they prepare the heavy pots and steam their pasta creations. They offer them to the public. Delicious. They describe their homeland. There were also Greeks there. From Pontus. Even now Greeks consist a community. Then they start dancing. Lavender. Whirlingly. Strengthfully. Keeping swords. And knives. Stability.…

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The lively dance of the Kazakhs

August 13 @ 8:00 pm
Megali Panagia, Squares, Megali Panagia Hills
Megali Panagia, Halkidiki 63075 Greece
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Dance depiction of Kazakhs life. From the Don River and the Black Sea to Siberia and the Far East. A program of dances, songs and musical compositions, which enchants and captivates with its dexterity and beauty, having in its repertoire mainly famous Russian traditional dances, such as "Lipetskaya Matanya", "Dancing Rivalry" and of course the famous "Kalinka" .

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September 2024

Honored Greek Destinations: Florina’s dance and the kembab feast

September 6 @ 8:00 pm
Arnea Central Square, Arnea, Halkidiki 63074 Greece + Google Map

We are taught about Florina: ✔️ about its brass music, ✔️ products, ✔️ gastronomy, ✔️ wines, ✔️ dances ✔️ and culture. We skate in all the alleys of Arnaia, we sing with the locals, while in the square we start dancing, under the brass sounds of the Valkanides, the most famous musical band of Western Greece! Florina's guests prepare kembab - their local culinary brand. They also offer beans, the famous ones - of Prespa region! We taste them. We…

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Honored Greek Destinations: Florina’s dance and the kembab feast

September 7 @ 8:00 pm
Stratoni Central Port, Stratoni Hills
Stratoni, 63082 Greece
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We are taught about Florina: about its brass music, products, gastronomy, wines, dances and culture. We skate in all the Stratoni streets round the flowered yards, we sing with the locals, while in the port we start dancing, under the brass sounds of the Valkanides, the most famous musical band of Western Greece! Florina's guests prepare kembab - their local culinary brand. We taste them. We like everything. We live in Greece of joy and Macedonia of sounds and celebration.…

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The awards ceremony

September 8 @ 8:00 pm
Ierissos Central Pier, Mouragio Restaurant
Ierissos, Halkidiki 63075 Greece
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Even if this summer is coming to the end, Ierissos is still summery. Festive. The feast for the honor of Virgin Mary is at its best. People come and go. Visitors enjoy its magical waters. Mount Athos and the Aristotelian Mountain arm Akanthios Bay. There, on its central pier, we start dancing. The brass band of Florina strolls along the beach road. We gather in front the holy sea. We summarize. We reward the volunteers. We honor Florina for the…

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The dowries: the dowry of Ammouliani

September 9 @ 6:00 am - 12:00 pm
Ammouliani Central Port, Ammouliani Port
Ammouliani, Halkidiki 63075 Greece
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The housekeepers in Ammouliani Island are originated from Asia Minor. They are passioned. Τhey love cleanliness. They also love cooking - they are fun of good food. And the pastries. Sincerely. With great respect for their heritage. In Ammouliani, everything beautiful and special is "shown" = shown off! Wedding favors and dowries are great household items to show off. It reveals the precocity of every bride, but also that of her mother. "From the unwrinkled white lace and the collared…

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The dowries: The dowry of Megali Panagia

September 10 @ 5:00 pm
Kelesi Square, Central Square
Megali Panagia, Halkidiki 63076 Greece
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Colorist. "Heavy". Based on wefts and warm layers. The dowry of Megali Panagia spreads out in the square, in the narrow streets and in the alleys of the center. Ornate crochet patterns. Stitches where count goes beyond simple arithmetic: minds trained in design and matching. Awesome Closures. Color combinations. Feast. And the sharp ones. Precisely cut and embroidered. Collared. Pillows and towels with initial letters: the bride and groom initial letters. The future of the new beginning. To grow on…

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The dowries: the Stanos dowry

September 11 @ 5:00 pm
Stanos, Central Square, 63074 Greece + Google Map

Rich in ornaments . Brightly colored. Elaborately woven. Flowers and geometries in the designs. Those made on the loom in the foreground. Rugs. Carpets. Calligraphy Straws. And then the blankets. The flokats. The heavy ones. And then the embroidered crafts. Cross-stitching on the long-sleeved shirts and on the teragons. The knitwear. Large round tablecloths. Stunning patterns, joined to each other or woven together. All design by count. Crochet and count all over. Hard work. Tough. On the other hand, the…

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The dowries: the dowry of Neochori

September 12 @ 5:00 pm
Neochori Central Square, Neochori
Halkidiki, 63074 Greece
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Colorful. Fabrics and intricate embroideries. And "asprokentia". "Troknies" (where the babies were kept) and rugs. Backgammon. Calligraphic designs. Beauty. Woven silks. Sheets and blanket. "Tsingelaki" everywhere. Lace overlays and magical finishes. Pillows and towels with lace and monograms. Collared "kofta". Worked detail. The dowry of Neochori is shown over the square with its pergolas and stone terraces. Flowers and wedding treatments. The "delicacies" are rich in Neochori - a puppet village, tucked inside the Aristotelian Forest. Beautiful girls go around…

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