Hydra’s Annual Festivals & Holidays

Hydra’s calendar is punctuated with regular feasts, festivals, and other celebrations. Feast days include New Year’s Day, Epiphany, Clean Monday, and Greek Easter, among many others. Festivals include the Carnival parade in early spring and the world-renowned “Miaoulia,” in honor of Admiral Andreas Miaoulis, hero of the 1821 Greek Revolution. Miaoulia takes place every year at the end of June and culminates the weeklong “Nautical Week.” Events include folk dancing, concerts, athletic demonstrations by the island’s students and clubs, among other cultural activities. The week finishes with “The Happening,” a reconstruction of Miaoulis’s sailors torching the Ottoman fleet, and a fantastic fireworks display. Hydriots also celebrate numerous public holidays, such as Independence Day and Oxi Day, with parades in the harbor.

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