Come watch the parade through Hydra Harbor! On March 25, Greeks celebrate the Greek National Anniversary, a major religious holiday[...]
Hydra hosts two annual three-day regattas that mark the beginning and end of the racing season. The first, held on[...]
The third annual Hydra Trail Event will be held over the weekend of April 9–10. Come join in, either by signing up[...]
Miaoulia 2015 kicks off on June 12 with a weekend tribute to Leonard Cohen at the Melina Mercouri Gallery. “The[...]
The “Happening,” the spectacular reenactment of the sinking by Miaoulis’s men of the Turkish flagship, featuring the siege and burning of[...]
This great feasting day in the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the “falling asleep,” or death, of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and her bodily resurrection[...]
Hydra hosts two annual three-day regattas that mark the beginning and end of the racing season. The first, held on[...]
Oxi Day commemorates the rejection by Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas (r. August 4, 1936—January 29, 1941) of the ultimatum, made by Italian[...]
Born in 1770, Constantine the Hydriot, Hydra’s patron saint, was a neo-martyr from the period of the Turkish occupation of[...]
The Athens Polytechnic uprising in 1973 was a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.[...]
While not quite as prominent as Easter, or Pascha, Christmas is still an important holiday celebrated on Hydra, as witnessed[...]
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New Year’s Day (Πρωτοχρονιά) is also celebrated ecclesiastically as the feast of St. Basil the Great and the Circumcision of Christ. Read[...]
Come join the community in celebrating Epiphany on Hydra in Hydra Harbor. Epiphany on Hydra Epiphany (ἐπιφάνεια, meaning “manifestation”) or[...]
Tsiknopempti, the Greek Orthodox equivalent of the Catholic Fat Thursday, literally means “Thursday of the Smoke of Grilled Meat,” with[...]